Welcome to the news hour. The Supreme Court today handed down a major victory for gun

control advocates ruling that domestic violence abusers can be barred from

owning guns. In an 8- 1 decision the court rejected a Second Amendment

challenge to the federal law that makes it illegal for people with domestic

violence restraining orders to possess firearms.

Joining us now is our Supreme Court analyst

Marsha Koyle.

Marsha, so nice to see you as always.

So this again, major Second Amendment decision,

8 to 1, but a lot of writing today.

Seven justices felt they needed to weigh in on this, writing on this.

Remind us what this case was all about and what the court ruled.

Okay. Well, Mr. Rahimi was the person who challenged the federal law, the

federal ban, and he had a domestic violence restraining order against him.

He was a pretty bad actor, William, to be honest with you.

I mean, he physically assaulted his girlfriend, threatened her and his child that they had.

He shot off his gun on different occasions despite their restraining order and in different places

as well.

His challenge went all the way up to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

That court ruled in his favor and struck down the federal law after applying the test that the Supreme Court announced in

2022 in a case that we call Bruin had to do with New York's open carry laws and that

test is whether the gun regulation being challenged, whether there is a tradition,

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