Supreme Court to hear arguments in case that could limit Congress on gun control

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : An appeals court leaned on the reasoning of that Bruen decision to strike down as unconstitutional a decades-old law that bans gun possession for anyone subject to certain domestic violence restraining orders.
55% : The Supreme Court hears oral arguments Tuesday in a case that could limit the legislative and political power of Congress and local lawmakers to regulate gun possession nationwide.
54% : Members of Congress said they have relied on the law Rahimi has challenged for decades, in a brief from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., in the case.
53% : Andrew Willinger, executive director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law, said the arguments in the case implicate a broad range of federal prohibitions on gun possession, including the ban for convicted felons.
53% : The group argued that Congress had enacted the law "through a bipartisan and deliberative legislative process, and Congress has continued to build on that foundation in a deliberative and bipartisan manner.
50% : That gun violence prevention bill included only a handful of gun control provisions, such as expanding background checks for gun purchasers under age 21 to include records from when they were minors.
46% : Still, the bill, along with the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization last year, contained the first gun control provisions to pass into law in years.
46% : The justices also set themselves up to decide another gun restriction case Friday, agreeing to decide a challenge to a Trump-era rule on "bump stocks," devices that allow a rifle to fire multiple times with one press of a trigger, on grounds that it violates federal law.
45% : I think maybe the focus shifts to the similar provisions in effect at the state level," Willinger said.Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said a ruling against the law also could disrupt the political dynamic of such legislation because gun rights groups likely would use it for wider advocacy against gun control legislation.
44% : Coons was one of the bipartisan sponsors of that reauthorization law, which increased notification requirements for failed background checks.
42% : "If there is a broader sense that the Supreme Court is beginning to move in an action that restricts our range of action for gun safety, that may create a political sense that this is just not something we are going to be able to legislate on," Coons said.Coons, a member of the Judiciary Committee, said such a decision also could affect the dynamic between lawmakers when discussing what legislation would be possible.

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