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Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling | CNN Politics

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The Supreme Court upheld a federal law Friday that bars guns for domestic abusers, rejecting an argument pressed by gun rights groups that the prohibition violated the Second Amendment.

Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling | CNN Politics

8-1 with Thomas the dissent.

“The court and government do not point to a single historical law revoking a citizen’s Second Amendment right based on possible interpersonal violence,” Thomas wrote. “Yet, in the interest of ensuring the Government can regulate one subset of society, today’s decision puts at risk the Second Amendment rights of many more.”

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