The man at the center of a landmark gun rights case before the Supreme Court shot a pistol at a woman a handful of times in a public parking lot, according to police records obtained by HuffPost.

Zackey Rahimi is challenging a longstanding federal law barring domestic abusers from possessing guns. But this previously undisclosed incident underlines advocates fears that allowing abusers to retain firearms will lead to more violence against women and undermine public safety.

This order should have prohibited him from having a gun, said David Pucino, deputy chief counsel at Giffords Law Center, a gun reform nonprofit. The fact that he had a gun allowed him to go ahead and use it, and fire it at yet another woman.

The case is one of dozens in which lower courts have scrapped well established gun restrictions to comply with the sweeping reinterpretation of Second Amendment rights penned by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last year.

Under the standard described by Thomas, the only gun restrictions permitted by the Constitution are those that existed in some form historically dating back to an unspecified period some time between 1791 when the framers signed the Bill of Rights and the end of the Civil War.