Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals

Now.Imperfect writes "In its last day of session, the Supreme Court has definitively clarified the meaning of the Second Amendment. The confusion is whether the Second Amendment allows merely for the existence of a state militia, or the private ownership of guns. This ruling is in response to a case regarding the 32-year-old Washington DC ban on guns." This is one of the most-watched Supreme Court cases in a long time, and Wikipedia's page on the case gives a good overview; the actual text of the decision (PDF) runs to 157 pages, but the holding is summarized in the first three. There are certainly other aspects of the Second Amendment left unaddressed, however, so you can't go straight to the store for a recently made automatic rifle.

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[RingDev]

Ehh, it's a toughie IMO. I'm torn on the issue myself, less guns = safer public, more guns = weaker government. But they took the 2nd amendment which has an unclear intention and made it much more definitive, at the cost of state's rights.

Which I guess I'm more accepting of the SCOTUS doing so than the EPA, but how many more rights can states lose before the State itself becomes defunct and there is only a Federal government to answer to?

-Rick