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12 VOISINE
v.
UNITED STATES
Opinion of the Court
III
The federal ban on firearms possession applies to any
person with a prior misdemeanor conviction for the “use
. . . of physical force” against a domestic relation.
§921(a)(33)(A). That language, naturally read, encom-
passes acts of force undertaken recklessly—
i.e.,
with
conscious disregard of a substantial risk of harm. And the
state-law backdrop to that provision, which included
misdemeanor assault statutes
covering reckless conduct in
a significant majority of jurisdictions, indicates that Con
-
gress meant just what it said. Each petitioner’s possession
of a gun, following a conviction under Maine law for abus-
ing a domestic partner, therefore violates §922(g)(9). We
accordingly affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals.