United States v. Rahimi
Supreme Court of the United States · No. 22-915 · 602 U.S. 680
👎Unfavorable to gun rights
Supreme Court upheld the federal domestic-violence restraining-order gun ban and reversed the ruling that had struck it down.
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What the court held
Zackey Rahimi, subject to a domestic-violence restraining order containing a judicial finding that he was a credible threat to his partner's safety, brought a facial Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8). The Supreme Court reversed the Fifth Circuit and upheld the statute, holding that an individual found by a court to pose a credible threat of physical violence to another may be temporarily disarmed, because the ban is relevantly similar in purpose and operation to founding-era surety and going-armed laws. Justice Thomas dissented, arguing the government had identified no historical law revoking gun rights based on a protective order alone.
Summarized from the court's opinion.
What this case is about
18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) ban on firearm possession by persons subject to domestic-violence restraining orders
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Key Dates
- 2024-06-21 — Decided
- 2023-11-07 — Argued
Sources
- CourtListener — retrieved 2026-08-08
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