In a major victory for domestic violence advocacy groups, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the broad reach of a federal law that bans people convicted of domestic violence from owning guns. Defendants Stephen Voisine and William Armstrong were each found guilty of misdemeanor domestic assaults in Maine. A federal law prohibits anyone with that type of conviction from possessing a gun. In a 6-2 decision, the high court ruled that reckless domestic assaults can be considered misdemeanor crimes to restrict gun ownership. Voisine and Armstrong presented separate arguments to the Supreme Court: one stating that only a conviction for an intentional domestic assault offense should count for the federal gun prohibition, while the other argued that the ban violates their constitutional right to bear arms.

Source: Fox News June 27, 2016 14:22 UTC