Washington, DC [US], June 22 (ANI): The US Supreme Court, in its decision on Friday, announced that the government can take guns away from people subject to restraining orders for domestic violence, The New York Times reported. The court's decision amounted to a retreat from what had been an unbroken series of major rulings favouring gun rights that began in 2008, when the court first recognised an individual constitutional right to keep firearms in the home for self-defence. In the 2022 decision, the court said that it was a right to carry guns outside the residence and announced a new test to check all sorts of gun control laws.
That new test has sparked confusion in the lower courts, with some judges striking down laws that were mentioned in the books for years. The decision was announced in a case, United States v Rahimi, which asked whether a Texas man could be prosecuted under federal law, making it a crime for people subject to domestic violence restraining orders to have guns. Chief Justice John G Roberts Jr, writing for the majority in the 8-to-1 decision, said that the response was yes and that Second Amendment rights have limits.
The chief justice wrote, "When a restraining order contains a finding that an individual poses a credible threat to the physical safety of an intimate partner, that individual may -- consistent with the Second Amendment -- be banned from possessing firearms while the order is in effect." The chief justice added, "Since the founding, our na.
