Catholic bishops, other religious leaders asking top court to uphold gun restriction

Evangelical group sides with abusive gun owner in what could become landmark case

Adapted from photo by Gmsjs90; licensed by Pixabay.

Organizations of Catholics, mainline Protestants, Jews and other faiths — but not evangelical Protestants — are among those that have formally urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a federal gun-control law that bans gun ownership by persons subject to a domestic-violence restraining order.

The U.S. Cat…