Based on a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, NYSRPA v. Bruen, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas struck down a federal law prohibiting access to guns if those people are subject to domestic violence protection orders.

In this highly unusual ruling, the court reasoned that it was compelled to question the constitutionality of firearm regulation in the United States in a post-Bruen world.