US supreme court upholds gun ban in domestic abuse cases

Rev Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, outside the US supreme court in Washington, DC on Friday. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesThe US supreme court has upheld restrictions on the possession of firearms by people under domestic violence restraining orders, in a case that has been closely watched as the country’s highest court grapples with the balance between gun rights and public safety.

“An individual found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the second amendment,” he added.Neutral but fully armed: Switzerland looks to its own defenceThe ruling comes just days after the court delivered the latest victory for those in favour of gun rights, overturning a Donald Trump-era ban on “bump stocks”, devices that turbocharge the firepower of ordinary rifles.

He sought to dismiss the indictment by arguing the underlying law conflicted with the right to bear arms under the second amendment. The motion was denied. A federal appeals court upheld the ruling, but after the supreme court’s 2022 decision it reconsidered and ruled in Rahimi’s favour.

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