summary of Justice Scalia’s opinion for a 5-member majority in District of Columbia v. Heller, invalidating D.C.’s handgun ban on Second Amendment grounds: 1. The Second Amendment protects an ...

whether the Second Amendment applies against the States. (See slip op. at 48 n. 23). By issuing nationwide injunctions against executive action, federal district courts are exercising too much power.

One of the first clashes of the debate came over the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, the case that said the Second Amendment protected an individual’s right to own ...

In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court stated that types of arms protected by the Second Amendment are not limited to those in existence at the time the Amendment was ratified ...

Bruen’s ruling built upon the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller, in which Justice Antonin Scalia said Second Amendment guarantees only apply fully to “ordinary” or “responsible” law ...

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), joined by the National Rifle Association (NRA), has filed a joint amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a closely watched case challenging Washington ...

In Heller v. District of Columbia (2008), the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to own guns, rather than the collective right of a state to have a militia.