Appeals Court: Gun Ban On Domestic Abusers Violates Second Amendment

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Second Amendment rights and tossed the conviction of a Texas man who possessed guns while under a restraining order. 

From UPI:

Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A Texas court has ruled that a federal law that bans people with restraining orders due to domestic violence from owning firearms violates the Second Amendment.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday threw out the Justice Department's bid to uphold the conviction of Zackey Rahimi, a Texas man who was convicted of possessing guns while under a restraining order for assaulting a former girlfriend.

The court ruled that the law failed the so-called Bruen test, which emerged from the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. vs. Bruen decision in the Supreme Court in June which struck down the state's concealed-carry law, ruling that gun control laws must have a precedent in the gun laws in force when the Constitution was drawn up.

"Through that lens, we conclude that [the law's] ban on possession of firearms is an 'outlier' that our ancestors would never have accepted," Judge Cory Wilson wrote in Thursday's opinion.

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Man Gored By Bison At Yellowstone

Above, a resting bison near a gas station in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

For the second time in less than a month, a visitor to Yellowstone National Park was gored by a wild bison. This time, it was not too far from Old Faithful Geyser.

According to UPI:

June 29 (UPI) -- For the second time in less than a month, a wild bison charged a group of people at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and gored one of them, park officials said.

The National Park Service said that the bison charged a 34-year-old Colorado man earlier this week near Yellowstone's most famous attraction, the Old Faithful geyser.

Officials said the man was walking with his family near the geyser when the animal abruptly charged them. The man was gored and received an injury to his arm. He was treated at a local hospital and released.

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