Supreme Court to decide whether domestic abusers are entitled to guns

The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will once again weigh in on Second Amendment rights and rule whether the government has the power to forbid domestic abusers from possessing firearms.

The high court’s agenda for the term that starts in October will now include a significant debate as a result of the decision to award the case.

The court will probably hear arguments in the autumn and issue its ruling the following year.

Zackey Rahimi has filed an appeal after being found guilty of breaking a federal statute that forbids Americans from having a gun while they are the target of a restraining order.

He contends that the federal statute also violates the Second Amendment since it was upheld in the Supreme Court’s historic ruling last year invalidating a New York gun law.

A New York statute that restricted who might apply for a license to carry a weapon in public was overturned by a ruling last year.

The 6-3 majority in that ruling mandated that gun laws must be “consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”

Finding the historical precedents for current gun legislation has become a top priority for states and gun control proponents as a result of these new criteria.

Rahimi won support from a federal appeals court in Louisiana earlier this year, which said that the statute was a historical “outlier that our ancestors would never have accepted.

A New York statute that restricted who might apply for a license to carry a weapon in public was overturned by a ruling last year.

As a result of that choice, Between late 2020 and early 2021, Rahimi was engaged in five shootings in and around Arlington, Texas.

When they secured a warrant to search his residence, police recovered a rifle and a handgun after identifying him as a suspect.

A document containing a restraining order filed against him in 2020 following a physical altercation with his girlfriend was also discovered. US v. Rahimi is the case at hand.