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Right to Bear Arms

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that the Second Amendment right to bear arms creates an individual right, not limited to the militia. The D.C. Circuit ruling in Heller is affirmed. Update: The opinion is available on SCOTUSblog and downloads haven't crashed their server. Must be pretty beefy. The opinion is now on the Court's website here. I've pasted the syllabus after the jump. Note that the Court specifically rules out the notion that this decision casts doubt on felon-in-possession laws, concealed carry laws, and several other widely accepted regulations of firearms. Syllabus: District of Columbia law bans handgun possession by making it a crime to carry an unregistered firearm and prohibiting the registration of handguns; provides separately that no person may carry an unlicensed handgun, but authorizes the police chief to issue 1-year licenses; and requires residents to keep lawfully owned firearms unloaded and dissembled or bound by a trigger lock or similar device...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on June 26, 2008 (boomark / email).