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The case before the Supreme Court involves a gun law enacted by Congress nearly 30 years ago that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms.
When a New Orleans-based appeals court struck down a federal law aimed at protecting victims of domestic violence from firearms - a matter that the U.S. Supreme Court takes up on Tuesday - Phil Sorrells, the conservative gun-owning Tarrant County district attorney in Texas, disagreed. "When they're involved in this intimate partner violence, they don't need to have access to weapons that are going to ramp up this violence even more," Sorrells said in an interview. The law at issue makes it a crime for a person under a domestic violence restraining order to have a gun.
The case before the Supreme Court involves a gun law enacted by Congress nearly 30 years ago that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms.
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