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What if any impact on Texas from extension of Second Amendment by SCOTUS to the states?

Yesterday the US Supreme Court decided that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies to the states. As Matthew Scarola at SCOTUSBlog put it, "Today?s opinion in McDonald v. City of Chicago means that for the first time, state and local governments? gun regulations must comport with the Second Amendment?s protection of the right 'to keep and bear Arms.'?Scarola thinks "McDonald?s extension of the Second Amendment to state and local gun regulation will undoubtedly prompt a flood of firearm-related litigation ? especially because the Court did not specify a standard of review." Along those lines, ?Justice Stevens lamented, 'today?s decision  . . . could mire the federal courts in fine-grained determinations about which state and local regulations comport with the Heller right ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).