Senator Dianne Feinstein On the Supreme Court’s Ruling Overturning the DC Handgun Ban
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
As Stuart noted below, today, the Supreme Court declared “that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to have a gun, not just the right of the states to maintain militias.”
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority in the landmark 5-to-4 decision, said the Constitution does not allow “the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used [...]
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