DOJ appeals to Supreme Court after court invalidates domestic violence restraining order gun ban
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The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to allow a federal ban on gun ownership for individuals under domestic abuse retraining orders to stand.
"More than a million acts of domestic violence occur in the United States every year, and the presence of a firearm increases the chance that violence will escalate to homicide," a Justice Department petition states. Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com
The Supreme Court petition was posted to Twitter by Pepperdine University law professor Jake Charles Friday.
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