Can federal law prohibit gun possession for people who are subject to domestic violence orders? It's the first Second Amendment case at the Supreme Court since a decision last year that expanded the right to carry firearms in public.
Douglas Letter, the group’s chief legal counsel, in a statement called the 5th Circuit decision in the case “egregiously wrong.”
Court filings said the defendant in the case, Zackey Rahimi, had a criminal record and was subject to a domestic violence restraining order in 2020 after he threatened his girlfriend. Later he was convicted of threatening a different woman with a gun and several times fired a weapon in public, according to court records.
The 5th Circuit overturned the conviction, finding the 1994 law violated Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Judge Cory T. Wilson wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel that the domestic violence order could not be enough to deprive Rahimi of firearms.
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