Supreme Court revisits the scope of the right to bear arms in the wake of latest mass shooting | News Channel 3-12

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "Majority opinion author Justice Clarence Thomas infuriated supporters of gun control and elated advocates of gun rights but also generated confusion among lower court judges who found themselves reconsidering thousands of firearms rules.
48% : The Supreme Court is considering a section of federal law that bars an individual subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a firearm.
46% : It was only a year ago that the Supreme Court issued a landmark Second Amendment opinion that expanded gun rights nationwide and established that firearms rules must be consistent with the nation's "historical tradition.
46% : "Every month, an average of 70 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner," lawyers for Everytown for Gun Safety told the justices in a friend of the court brief filed with the court supporting the law.
42% : "In addition, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, when she served on a lower court, dissented when her colleagues rejected a Second Amendment challenge from a man with a felony who was prohibited from possessing a firearm under both federal and Wisconsin law.
41% : "She said that the fact that the law included all felons "both violent and nonviolent" made it unconstitutional as applied to the plaintiff in the case - suggesting she is interested in developing some kind of standard based on "dangerousness.
41% : The 5th Circuit held that the law is not "consistent with our tradition of gun regulation.
39% : "In its appeal to the Supreme Court, the Biden administration defends the law, arguing that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is "not unlimited" and it does not prohibit Congress from disarming Rahimi and other individuals subject to domestic-violence protective orders.
35% : J. Matthew Wright, a federal public defender in North Texas, says the justices should maintain their Bruen stance and therefore "the law is unconstitutional on its face.
34% : A federal grand jury indicted him, and Rahimi moved to dismiss the indictment arguing that the law was unconstitutional.

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