Less than a year after SCOTUS issued its major decision expanding gun rights, the new legal test has reshaped the legal landscape for firearms laws and led to uncertainty over whether measures that aim to curb gun violence can survive legal scrutiny.
a 30-year-old federal law that prohibits a person subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing firearms is unconstitutional in light of the Bruen decision.
"In the founding era, you won't always find laws that directly disarmed people for intimate-partner violence," he said."It wasn't something legislatures concerned themselves with, but it would be absurd to say we can't do that today simply because in 1791 women were not given the protection of law that they deserved then and now."
"It invites district courts to become historians in ways they're not equipped to be," she told CBS News."It also requires this in-depth review of the historical record, which is an onerous task, even for an expert, and district courts with heavy dockets are not well-positioned to be taking that on."
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