Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling | CNN Politics
Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling | CNN Politics
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.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16783334
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.”
You're viewing a single thread.
That 40% of cops will be able to keep theirs since they claim the time they spend beating their spouses as "overtime".
Their spouses must have been holding a cell phone that looked like a gun.