The 8-1 opinion came from Chief Justice John Roberts.
An exterior view of the Supreme Court on June 20, 2024 in Washington, DC.The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a longstanding federal ban on firearms for people under domestic violence restraining orders.was authored by Chief Justice John Roberts. Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter.
The law has blocked more than 77,000 attempted firearm purchases by people under DVROs since 1994, according to the FBI. The Bruen decision triggered a flood of challenges to gun safety laws on claims they don't have a historical parallel and has become a source of confusion for judges who have struggled to apply the new rule consistently.
Thomas, who authored the Bruen opinion, wrote in his dissent that “not a single historical regulation justifies the statute at issue.” “The Supreme Court's narrow opinion offers no endorsement of red flag laws or of the dozens of other unconstitutional laws that the NRA is challenging across the country that burden the right of peaceable Americans to keep and bear arms," said NRA Institute for Legislative Action executive director Randy Kozuch in a statement on X. "This decision holds only that an individual who poses a clear threat of violence may be temporarily disarmed after a judicial finding of dangerousness.
"We know that firearms make domestic abuse situations significantly more deadly, and firearms' effects on women's safety is a crisis," said former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who founded a gun safety group after being shot in 2011. "This ruling is a small step in the fight to stop violence against women."
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