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Self-Defense and the Right to Bear Arms

By Ron Chapman

          The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states that "[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."  Earlier this year, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of District of Columbia v. Heller in which the Court held that a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession in the home violated the Second Amendment as did a prohibition against rendering any lawful gun in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense.           The relevant facts in the Heller case are that Dick Heller was a District of Columbia special police officer who was authorized to carry a handgun while on duty at the Federal Judicial Center...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).