Trump Judge: Domestic Abusers May Possess Guns

CNN reports:

A federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, a conservative-leaning appeals court ruled Thursday.

The ruling is the latest significant decision dismantling a gun restriction in the wake of the Supreme Court’s expansion of Second Amendment rights last year in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen decision.

The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals said that the federal law targeting those believed to pose a domestic violence threat could not stand under the Bruen test, which requires that gun laws have a historical analogy to the firearm regulations in place at the time of the Constitution’s framing.

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The opinion was authored by Judge Cory Wilson, a former Mississippi state rep nominated to the federal bench by Trump in 2020.

During his Senate confirmation hearing, Democrats brought up Wilson’s history of anti-LGBTQ, anti-Obamacare, and anti-abortion social media posts, as well his attacks on prominent Democrats.

He was narrowly confirmed in 52-48 vote, making him Trump’s 200th appointee to the federal bench.

A federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, a conservative-leaning appeals court has ruled https://t.co/NVfYQBMldc

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