Zackey Rahimi’s attorneys argued that he should not have been banned from having guns in the first place because that violated his constitutional rights. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed.
Texas had its second-highest domestic violence homicide rate in a decade in 2022, according to a report from the Texas Council on Family Violence. Of the 216 victims, about 70% of them were shot.
Rahimi allegedly knocked his girlfriend to the ground and slammed her head into a car dashboard during an argument. She got a protective order in February 2020 that required him to stay away from her — and barred Rahimi from having guns. Violating the terms of a domestic violence protective order prohibiting the alleged abuser from having firearms is against federal law. Rahimi’s attorneys appealed his conviction for that offense, arguing that he should not have been banned from having guns in the first place because that violated his constitutional rights.
Amanda Aubrey, a legal policy analyst for the Texas Council on Family Violence, said Rahimi’s criminal history made him less sympathetic.Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to agree. Sarah Hilderbrand, who cowrote the report, said at a town hall when the report was released that she estimates as much as 40% of the perpetrators of domestic violence killings last year were prohibited from owning a firearm.
Kathryn Jacob, the president and CEO of SafeHaven, the family violence center for Tarrant County, said the purpose of the law in the Rahimi case is to protect survivors of domestic violence. Jacob said all men who own guns won’t shoot their wives. Rather, she compared it to a bottle of wine in the hands of someone who doesn’t have a drinking problem versus a bottle of wine in the hands of an alcoholic.
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