WASHINGTON (November 3, 2023)—The United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next Tuesday, November 7th in the case U.S. v Rahimi. According to scotusblog, this case discusses “Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic-violence restraining orders, violates the Second Amendment on its face.” BBC claims the United States has recorded over 560 mass shootings in the US so far in 2023.
For more context on the matter, please consider Robert Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Cottrol is an expert in American and Comparative Legal History, Criminal Law, and the Second Amendment. Cottrol is the author of numerous books- his most recent, To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment, was published in September of 2023 and explores the complex legal history of the right to bear arms.
If you wish to speak with Professor Robert Cottrol, please contact media relations specialist Shannon Mitchell at shannon [dot] mitchell
gwu [dot] edu (shannon[dot]mitchell[at]gwu[dot]edu).
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