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Supreme Court Extended The Right To Keep And Bear Arms To All 50 States.

By David

If for some reason you missed all of the excitement,  on Monday June 28, 2010,  the Supreme Court in McDonald v. City of Chicago, No. 08-1521, ___U.S.___ (2010) extended the federally protected right to keep and bear arms to all 50 states. The decision nullifies a Chicago ordinance banning ownership of handguns. Legal scholars are already predicting challenges on many fronts such as, age limits that bar people younger than 21 from buying or owning guns, California’s outlawing of certain handguns, and assault weapons and ammunition bans.

For more information on the decision and other gun cases pending see http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndsup.html or the decision itself at the Supreme Court website, http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1521.pdf.  (Post-David)

Full post as published by Cocky Law Blawg on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).