[/Pattern /DeviceRGB] L. J. It stated that this was not an exhaustive list of the regulatory measures that would be presumptively permissible under the Second Amendment. Accessibility | /Type /ExtGState Saul Cornell, Commonplace or Anachronism: The Standard Model, the Second Amendment, and the Problem of History in Contemporary Constitutional Theory, 16 Const. Press | /CA 1.0 The Court found that this language guarantees an individual right to possess and carry weapons. 167 (2000).
& Mary Bill Rts. The outcome of D.C. v. Heller left some issues unanswered, including whether the Second Amendment restricts state regulation of firearms, and the standard for evaluating the constitutionality of other laws and regulations that impact the Second Amendment right. In its June 26 decision, a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms, and that the D.C. provisions banning handguns and requiring firearms in the home disassembled or locked violate this right. /BitsPerComponent 8 701 (2000) (reviewing Stephen P. Halbrook, Freedmen, The Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876, Westport, Ct.: Praeger Pubs. >> Chief Justice John Roberts took the unusual step of authorizing an early release of the audio recording of argument to the public..
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The Court then considered the Second Amendmentâs prefatory clause, "[a] well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," and determined that while this clause announces a purpose for recognizing an individual right to keep and bear arms, it does not limit the operative clause. /AIS false endstream endobj 27 0 obj <> endobj 28 0 obj <> endobj 29 0 obj <>stream %PDF-1.5 %���� The briefs on the merits by the District of Columbia and respondent Dick Anthony Heller, as well as amicus briefs by some 67 âfriends of the court,â have been collected here (external link). Inspector General | On June 26, 2008, in District of Columbia v.Heller (PDF), the United States Supreme Court issued its first decision since 1939 interpreting the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Still, there had been ample debate in has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument.â 307 U.S. at 178. The Court concluded that the district court erred in holding the National Firearms Act provisions unconstitutional.
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On November 20, 2007, the Supreme Court granted (PDF) the petition for certiorari. The Court framed the question for which it granted review as follows: âWhether the following provisions â D.C. Code §§ 7-2502.02(a)(4), 22-4504(a), and 7-2507.02 â violate the Second Amendment rights of individuals who are not affiliated with any state-regulated militia, but who wish to keep handguns and other firearms for private use in their homes?â.
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