Supreme Court to decide if gun bans for domestic abusers are constitutional

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : If the federal law falls, so would similar laws in most states, and other important gun laws.
47% : The defendant in the case, Zackey Rahimi, is something of a poster child for why Congress passed the law in 1994.
44% : More generally, Dreeben says, a decision against the federal law could cast doubt on an a network of prohibitions enacted by state and local governments that have been shown to be even more effective because of their greater breadth.
39% : In 2019, Barrett dissented when the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law banning convicted felons from possessing guns.
38% : At issue is the federal law that makes it a crime for anyone subject to a domestic violence court order to possess a gun.
37% : The Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that could invalidate the federal law barring guns for anyone who is the subject of a domestic violence court order.
37% : "Have they now been dispossessed of their Second Amendment rights for the lives?"Dreeben sees the dangers as far more imminent if the court strikes down the law banning guns for those covered by domestic violence protective orders.
36% : He says that a decision invalidating the federal law "will rip a hole" in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which requires protective orders of the type that Rahimi had, to be entered into the system so they can serve as flags to deny the purchase of firearms.
34% : But he continued to press his constitutional challenge, and ultimately the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law is unconstitutional because there was nothing like it in the 1790s.

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