The decision amounted to a retreat from what had been an unbroken series of major decisions expanding gun rights that started in 2008.
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Justice Clarence Thomas, the author of the majority opinion in the 2022 decision,
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, was the only dissenter.
The Fifth Circuit, which ruled for Mr. Rahimi, is dominated by Republican appointees and has issued a series of aggressively conservative rulings that have met a frosty reception at the Supreme Court, itself quite conservative, on issues like
immigration,
abortion pills,
contacts with social media companies and so-called
ghost guns. Some of those Supreme Court rulings were tentative, but
the overall picture is one of an appeals court out of step with the justices.
In the case decided Friday, Chief Justice Roberts said the appeals court’s opinion was an exercise in “slaying a straw man.”
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