Actress Julianne Moore speaks outside the court during November arguments
The Supreme Court upheld a 30-year-old law on Friday that bars people with restraining orders for domestic abuse from owning firearms. Chief Justice John Roberts described the ruling as “common sense.”
In an 8-1 decision, the Justices found that historically, gun laws often included provisions preventing individuals “who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms.”
Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter, saying there wasn’t a “single historical regulation” that justified the ban.