Issue

The Issue was that he had been convicted before of domestic violence to his ex wife. In 2005 police answered to a call of domestic violence to Randy Edwards Hayes house. While the police were there, they found a weapon and charged him for breaking “18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), which prohibits anyone convicted of a “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” from possessing a firearm” -http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=United_States_v._Hayes. The argument is if that law only applies if the crime has as an element a domestic relationship or if it applies to any crime that involves a domestic relation.