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Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared inclined to uphold a 30-year-old federal ban on firearms for people under domestic violence restraining orders. At the same time, during oral arguments in the case U.S. v. Rahimi, several conservative justices seemed to seek a narrow ruling that would reaffirm a generally expansive view of the Second Amendment. The case comes at a time when firearms are a leading factor in intimate partner violence nationwide. A woman is five times more likely to die from a domestic abuse situation if a gun is invol...

The Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday on a federal law that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday for the case which could overturn a federal law that prohibits individuals with orders of protection from possessing guns.  The case involves Zachey Rahimi, a Texas man who harmed his girlfriend in a parking lot in 2019. When he realized a bystander had witnessed his aggression, Rahimi […]

U.S. Supreme Court justices seem to lean toward upholding a law preventing the possession of guns by a person subject to a domestic violence protective order.

The US Supreme Court is considering the legality of a federal law that prohibits individuals under domestic violence restraining orders from possessing guns.