The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared to lean in favor of upholding a federal law prohibiting those under domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms.

A vast majority of the justices at the oral argument in U.S. v. Rahimi seemed skeptical that the 1994 ban violates the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms.

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