Why one survivor of domestic violence wants the Supreme Court to uphold a gun control law

WASHINGTON — Ruth Glenn knows from harrowing personal experience the danger of putting a gun in the hands of a violent spouse or partner, the issue at the heart of a case before the Supreme Court. “He would not have been able to access that gun if we had these current laws in place,” Glenn said in an interview with The Associated Press that took place outside the Supreme Court. The closely watched case is the first one involving guns to reach the justices since their landmark Bruen decision last year expanded gun rights and changed the way courts evaluate whether restrictions on firearms violate the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms.” Glenn, the president of Survivor Justice Action, is allied with gun control groups that are backing the Biden administration’s defense of the law. Rahimi’s case, and the subject of domestic violence may offer the government the optimal situation for defending gun restrictions, said Hashim Mooppan, a former Justice Department official in the Trump administration. “We’re saying that the one thing that can protect them is a protection order that says somebody must have their gun removed,” Glenn said on the sidewalk outside the court.