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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Focus on gunsU.S. v. Rahimi may be the limiting case for gun rights, identifying the stopping point of the recent changes in Second Amendment doctrine.
57% : Historians have presented evidence that there were widespread laws and practices during the early republic limiting gun possession by individuals, like Rahimi, who were judged to be dangerous.
57% : If so, the ruling will likely uphold Rahimi's conviction and limit gun rights.
57% : On the other hand, if the court reads those historical standards as more narrow and specific than the contemporary ban on gun possession while under a restraining order, those limits will be struck down.
55% : That's the question posed in one of the biggest cases of the current Supreme Court term, focused on the limits of individual gun rights.
40% : The court will decide whether the federal law prohibiting the possession of firearms by someone subject to a domestic violence restraining order violates the Second Amendment.

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