Gun ownership can be denied to domestic abusers, Supreme Court rules

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Gun ownership can be denied to those who commit reckless acts of domestic violence, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The 6-2 ruling, in which Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, upheld sentences of two men who argued their prior misdemeanor domestic abuse convictions should not deny them the opportunity to own weapons.

In writing for the majority, Associate Justice Elena Kagan noted petitioners Stephen Voisine and William Armstrong, each from Maine, argued their prior convictions were “based on reckless, rather than knowing or intentional, conduct and thus did not quality as misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence.”

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