SCOTUS Bans Guns for Domestic Abuse Suspects

Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns

The Supreme Court upheld a 30-year-old law on Friday that bars people with restraining orders for domestic abuse from owning firearms. Chief Justice John Roberts described the ruling as “common sense.”

In an 8-1 decision, the Justices found that historically, gun laws often included provisions preventing individuals “who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms."

Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter, saying there wasn’t a "single historical regulation" that justified the ban.[The Flyover]

“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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