Lawrence Hurley covers the Supreme Court for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday has a day of reckoning over its own expansive gun rights ruling from last year, as it considers whether a federal law that prohibits alleged domestic abusers from owning firearms is unconstitutional as a result.
A separate provision that bars users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms has drawn scrutiny too in part because Hunter Biden has been charged with violating it and has indicated he will mount a constitutional challenge. Whatever the Supreme Court rules in the Rahimi case will affect how courts handle challenges to those other federal restrictions as well as similar state laws.
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