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Supreme Court Says Individuals Have Right to Own Guns, Strikes Down D.C. Handgun Gan
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession.
Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion for the majority stressed that the Court was not casting doubt on long-standing bans on gun possession by felons or the mentally retarded, or laws barring guns from schools or government buildings, or laws putting conditions on gun sales.
Read About It: SCOTUSblog.com
POSTED: 6/26/2008
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