Getty ImagesPeople placed under restraining orders for suspected domestic violence do not have a right to own guns, the Supreme Court has ruled.
The 8-1 decision upholds a 30-year-old law that bars those with restraining orders for domestic abuse from owning firearms.
A lower court had struck down that federal statute as not “consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation”.
Friday’s ruling marks a rare victory for firearms restrictions in the top court.
Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the majority opinion, with all but one of his colleagues in agreement.
The policy of disarming alleged domestic abusers is in line with “what common sense suggests”, he wrote.
“When an individual poses a clear threat of physical violence to another, the threatening individual may be disarmed,” he said.
Justice Clarence Thomas, arguably the most conservative…
