SCOTUS To Hear Case On Guns And Domestic Violence

June 30, 2023 Guns, Politics

The New York Times reports:

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider whether the government may forbid people subject to domestic violence orders from having guns, setting the stage for a major test of its ruling last year vastly expanding people’s right to arm themselves in public.

The case will turn on the scope of a new legal standard established in that decision, one whose reliance on historical practices has sown confusion across the country as courts have struggled to apply it. It comes as the nation struggles to address a seemingly unending series of mass shootings and other gun violence.

The Supreme Court has issued only two significant Second Amendment decisions since 2008, when it established an individual right to keep guns in the home for self-defense in District of Columbia v. Heller. Two years later, in McDonald v. Chicago, the court extended the Heller decision, which concerned federal gun laws, to state and local ones.

Read the full article. Arguments will be made in the coming term which starts in October and a ruling will likely come around this time next year.



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