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Birth Control Works2/23/2014 9:04:34 am PST
After the Supreme Court listens to the McCullen case, it will hear arguments in United States v. Castleman, which considers the scope of a 1996 federal law that bars anyone convicted of a “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” from possessing a firearm.

At issue is whether the federal law applies to state domestic violence laws that don’t require violent physical force as an element of the offense — in other words, whether it could be applied to someone who was technically charged with “domestic violence” but didn’t necessarily commit a violent act.

“There is no doubt about what Congress meant to accomplish,” Castleman’s side argues in its brief before the court. Its “goal was to keep firearms from people who ‘engage in serious spousal or child abuse.’ Congress did not intend to impose a lifetime firearms ban on people who engage in ‘offensive touching,’ or cause ‘a paper cut or a stubbed toe.’”

The above is the link provided by the NRA website. Notice the lumping together of abortion with a challenge to gun rights.