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Firearm Cases and Laws to be Impacted by Supreme Court Ruling

By Walin & Klarich

On June 26, 2008, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) 128 S. Ct. 645. The issue in the case was whether Washington, D.C.'s gun law ran afoul of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. That Amendment provides, in its entirety, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The D.C. law in issue here provided that with extremely limited exceptions, it was illegal to possess handguns in the District, and that any concealed weapons or possessed firearms, including shotguns and rifles, had to be kept unloaded and disassembled and/or bound by a trigger lock - even when the gun was possessed strictly in a person's home...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on August 25, 2008 (boomark / email).