On February 2, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, an increasingly reactionary body packed with Trump appointees, overturned a federal ban on gun possession by people subject to domestic violence restraining orders. In a 24-page ruling, the panel explains how it applied Bruen’s new framework for deciding Second Amendment cases: In order for a gun law to be constitutional, the government must prove that it is well established in America’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.” Because domestic violence wasn’t a crime in the 18th and 19th centuries, nor for most of American history, the 5th Circuit declared the ban unconstitutional.

**It’s the latest example of how Bruen is reshaping U.S. gun laws — and in the three states where the ruling applies, The Trace’s Jennifer Mascia and Will Van Sant write in their analysis of the decision, victims of domestic violence could now be in peril.