Supreme Court to decide if gun bans for domestic abusers are constitutional
The Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that could invalidate the federal law barring guns for anyone who is the subject of a domestic violence court order. If the federal law falls, so would similar laws in most states, and other important gun laws.
The case is the next chapter in the high court's new Second Amendment doctrine.
How the case got to the court
Sixteen months ago, the conservative court majority broke sharply with the way gun laws had been handled by the courts in the past. In a landmark decision, the six-justice majority ruled that in order to be constitutional, a gun law has to be analogous to a law that existed at the nation's founding in the late 1700s.
Since then, Second Amendment advocates have brought to state and federal gun
