Domestic Violence Laws and Gun Rights
We the People
National Constitution Center
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Earlier this month in a case called United States versus Rahimi, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck down as unconstitutional a 30 year old law barring people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. |
| 0:14.6 | The ruling comes on the heels of the US Supreme Court's decision in New York State Rifle |
| 0:19.4 | and Pistol Association versus Bruin. |
| 0:22.2 | That was a decision last term term which held that the Second Amendment |
| 0:24.5 | protects the right to carry guns outside the home. Bruin also created a new history and |
| 0:29.3 | tradition test for determining whether gun control regulations are constitutional, |
| 0:33.7 | which has led some lower courts to rule differently |
| 0:36.5 | on challenges to gun laws. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello friends, I'm Jeffrey Rosen president and CEO of the National |
| 0:45.4 | Constitution Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of |
| 0:48.8 | constitutional debate. The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people. |
| 1:00.0 | In this episode, we break down the Rahimi decision and explore the new landscape of the Second Amendment after Bruin. |
| 1:07.0 | We're joined by two leading scholars of the Second Amendment. |
| 1:10.0 | Amy Swarer is Senior Fellow in the Edwin Meese |
| 1:12.8 | the Third Center for Legal and Judicial Studies |
| 1:14.8 | at the Heritage Foundation. |
| 1:16.3 | She was a primary author of the recently published |
| 1:18.6 | Heritage Book, The Essential Second Amendment. |
| 1:21.9 | Amy, it is wonderful to welcome you to We The People. |
| 1:24.5 | Jeff, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:26.1 | I'm really grateful to be here. |
| 1:28.5 | And Adam Winkler is the Kamelow Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. |
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