From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Supreme Court takes up a big new gun case, as Joe Manchin says he won't seek re-election from West Virginia

but will try to start a movement among the middle.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues,

columnist Kim Strassal and Bill McGurn. In a big week with elections and a

Republican presidential primary debate.

We are playing a bit of catch up on the Supreme Court,

which on Tuesday heard another big case on the Second Amendment.

This one was US versus Rahimi.

It is a appeal by the federal government and not the set of facts necessarily

that you would want at the Supreme Court if you're an advocate of the Second Amendment.

It involves a Texas man named

Zaki Rahimi who had a physical altercation

with a girlfriend in a parking lot

after which he fired a gun at a witness that he saw there.

The result was a domestic violence restraining order

issued against him.

After that, he had a series of other incidents

with firing at a driver at a water burger fast food joint when a friend's credit card was declined according to the court record.

And the result of this was a conviction on a federal law with 73 months in prison as the sentence

because this federal law says that if you have a domestic violence restraining

order issued against you you are not allowed to possess a firearm.

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