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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kelly Rissman and Alex Woodward

Supreme Court seems poised to keep guns away from domestic abusers

AP

The Supreme Court appears likely to uphold a law that would keep firearms out of the hands of domestic violence offenders, after the justices heard two hours of arguments in another major Second Amendment case.

A decision in the case of United States v Rahimi — which is expected in late June — could have profound impacts on the ways courts and law enforcement protect abuse survivors, as states wrangle with patchwork laws restricting gun ownership in the face of the nation’s gun violence epidemic.

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