Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns
The Supreme court has upheld a federal ban preventing anyone placed under a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a gun.
The ruling in US v Rahimi, supported by eight justices to one, with Clarence Thomas dissenting, will leave in place legal protections against a major source of gun violence in America.
Writing the opinion, the chief justice, John Roberts, said that individuals can be temporarily disarmed if they pose a “credible threat to the physical safety of another” without violating the second amendment to the constitution that allows the right to bear arms.
The judgment has come as a relief to gun control advocates.
They had feared that the ability to disarm dangerous people might fall prey to the radical interpretation of the second amendment advanced by the court’s conservative supermajority.
US attorney general Merrick Garland has welcomed the ruling as confirmation that “commonsense prohibition is entirely consistent” with the second amendment.
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