, which upheld a federal gun ban for people under domestic violence restraining orders — a decision that pleased the Biden administration and gun control groups. But despite the victory in favor of the government’s position, legal and firearms experts say the justice’s 2022 decision in a landmark gun case known asAssociate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022.
Cody Wisniewski, senior attorney for constitutional litigation with Firearms Policy Coalition, told thethe majority’s decision “underscores the fact that it is clear that individuals, peaceable individuals, have a natural, fundamental, and unalienable right to self-defense, which includes the keeping and bearing of arms.”placed under a restraining order
But Thomas wrote that “neither is a compelling historical analogue,” arguing that the majority didn’t consider “vital differences” when it reached the opposite conclusion in favor of the federal government.applies to modern gun control measures, with Roberts suggesting that the test set in“The Second Amendment permits more than just those regulations identical to ones that could be found in 1791,” Roberts said.
Meanwhile, other Republican appointees, including Justice Brett Kavanaugh, stressed their reasoning for joining the majority in separate concurrences.
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