USA Today | As gun owners, we urge the Supreme Court to uphold restrictions on domestic abusers
Our research shows that 76.9% of gun owners support prohibiting gun possession by people subject to a domestic violence restraining order.
BY OLIVIA TROYE AND ABRA BELKE, USA TODAY OPINION CONTRIBUTORS
11/07/23 5:03 AM EST
As the nation reels in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting – this time in Lewiston, Maine – many Americans, both gun owners and non-gun owners, are asking themselves how we keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. Against this backdrop, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that will decide the fate of modern gun laws designed to do just that.
Though Lewiston shooter Robert Card and Zackey Rahimi – the defendant in the case on the Supreme Court docket Tuesday – share little in common in terms of background or criminal history, what unites them is the question of when an American should be denied access to a firearm.