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Dec 20, 2025

Supreme Court Delivers Key Second Amendment Decision

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge this week to the constitutionality of a federal law that bans the possession of a firearm by someone who has been the subject of a domestic violence restraining order.

The court holds that when an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to another’s physical safety, that individual may be temporarily disarmed, consistent with the Second Amendment.

The vote is 8-1, with Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that, “Since the founding, our Nation’s firearm laws have included provisions preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms. As applied to the facts of this case, Section 922(g)(8) fits comfortably within this tradition.”

Discussing the application by the lower courts of the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, Roberts writes, “Some courts have misunderstood the methodology of our recent Second Amendment cases. These precedents were not meant to suggest a law trapped in amber.”

Otherwise, Roberts explained, the Second Amendment would only protect “muskets and sabers.”

“Why and how the regulation burdens the right are central to this inquiry. For example, if laws at the founding regulated firearm use to address particular problems, that will be a strong indicator that contemporary laws imposing similar restrictions of similar reasons fall within a permissible category of regulations.”

The Supreme Court has been busy lately.

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will review the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants living in the United States.

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