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Rahimi involves a federal law that prohibits those under a restraining order in a domestic violence case from having guns. It is a law that has saved untold numbers of lives, especially women’s ...
The high court is currently weighing a follow-up case to its 2022 ruling concerning a long-standing law that bans people accused of domestic violence from owning firearms. In a separate gun ...
The case centered on a 1994 law that bars people who are the subject of domestic violence restraining orders from possessing guns. A Texas man, Zackey Rahimi, was convicted for violating that law ...
The Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban, often called the "Lautenberg Amendment" ("Gun Ban for Individuals Convicted of a Misdemeanor Crime of Domestic Violence", Pub. L. 104–208 (text), [1 2]), is an amendment to the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, enacted by the 104th United States Congress in 1996, which bans access to firearms for life by people convicted of crimes of ...
When Martinez-Jordan first joined the Sheriff's Office in the early 2000s, people with misdemeanor domestic violence convictions or active protective orders were prohibited from owning firearms ...
United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and whether it empowers the government to prohibit firearm possession by a person with a civil domestic violence restraining order in the absence of a corresponding criminal domestic violence conviction or charge.
Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban; Federal Assault Weapons Ban; Federal Firearms Act of 1938; Federal firearms license; Firearm case law; Firearm Owners Protection Act; Gun Control Act of 1968; Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA) Gun law in the U.S. Gun laws in the U.S. by state; Gun politics in the U.S. Gun show loophole; High-capacity magazine ban
That led to a wave of new challenges to well-established gun restrictions including the domestic violence prohibition at issue in Friday's ruling in United States v. Rahimi. Rahimi.