Court watchers expect the Supreme Court to hand down more guidance on gun control laws and the Second Amendment after a number of courts have struck down restrictions to allow drug users, felons and domestic violence offenders to possess firearms.
Various courts have issued more than 400 gun control rulings since the Supreme Court last year struck down a New York law that had required individuals to show a need to carry a firearm, according to an analysis by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
“A lot of courts are looking for more guidance. Certainly people on the left are screaming a lot,” said Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice. “I think very slowly over the years the court will probably add some guidance.”The Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will hear oral arguments on Nov. 7 in its first post-Bruen case, which focuses on whether individuals under domestic violence restraining orders can possess firearms — United States v. Rahimi.
The circuit judges said the situation would have been different had Mr. Rahimi been convicted of a violent crime. They said a civil restraining order doesn’t preclude Mr. Rahimi from the constitutional right to bear arms.
He said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh — who both occupy the ideological middle of the court — may worry about the public image of the court allowing domestic violence offenders to handle guns. The 3rd Circuit’s en banc ruling noted that the government was unable to show that barring Mr. Range from owning a firearm was consistent with any restrictions dating back to the nation’s founding.
The Bruen ruling, the 8th Circuit said, reaffirmed that the Second Amendment right is “subject to certain reasonable, well-defined restrictions.” A federal grand jury in August 2022 indicted Mr. Harrison on violating federal law 18 U.S.C. § 922, which prohibits users of unlawful substances from possessing a gun.
A three-judge panel reasoned that Reconstruction-era laws restricted 18- to 20-year-olds from buying pistols. That decision was later vacated, and the full panel 11th Circuit is expected to hear the case.
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