Before we jump in a note of caution for listeners you're going to hear a graphic

description of violence in today's episode.

All of a sudden there were three booms and he shot three times through the door.

That's Kate Ranta.

She spoke to NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg about the night in 2012 that her husband

Tom Fay shot her in the chest in hand, almost killing her.

Then he went over to my dad, then I just heard, boom,

and I heard my dad grunt.

I thought he killed him.

I managed to crawl to the little dining room table I had.

My son was standing on the other side of it and my ex came over and knelt down

next to William and he had the gun and he was like pointing it and like

taunting me with it and all of a sudden my son yelled don't do a daddy don't shoot

mommy and it got real quiet. Ranta, her father and her son all

survive that horrific night. Mafei was eventually sentenced to 60 years in

prison for attempted first-degree murder.

11 years later, Ranta has now filed a brief in a major gun rights case before the Supreme

Court that tests the constitutionality of an important federal firearms law.

The law makes it a felony for anybody subject to a domestic violence court order to possess a gun.

But last year, the Supreme Court ruled

that in order to be constitutional,

a gun law has to be somehow comparable

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