Last year, the Supreme Court appeared to narrow Bruen substantially when the justices upheld a federal ban on gun possession by people subject to domestic-violence restraining orders. That decision emphasized that modern gun regulations could pass muster even if they lacked a precise historical precursor.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht argued that the state’s highest court should weigh in on the case and set a precedential opinion to benefit the state’s bench, bar and Pennsylvanians.