Supreme Court's Gun Control Dilemma: Balancing Rights and Safety

The Supreme Court heard a case involving a domestic abuser who violated a restraining order and possessed a gun, testing the boundaries of the court's recent expansion of gun rights. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had previously found the federal ban on firearms for domestic abusers under restraining orders to be unconstitutional. The solicitor-general argued that the principles undergirding regulations should be considered, rather than a historical match. The justices questioned the fairness of the state-court proceeding that resulted in the restraining order, but a majority of the court seems unlikely to re-arm the domestic abuser.