US Supreme Court Votes in Favor of Second Amendmentby ISEguyAmerican citizens, whether they live in Chicago or rural Wyoming, now have the same right to keep and bear arms. The United States Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 for the individual right to keep and bear arms. The case before the Court, McDonald v. City of Chicago, was filed in 2008, a day after the Supreme Court's landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the high court reaffirmed that the Second Amendment protects an "individual" right to keep and bear arms. The Heller decision, however, did not address the question of whether the Second Amendment also applied to the states. Immediately after Heller, several Chicago residents, including retired maintenance worker Otis McDonald, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the city's long-standing gun ban. The Chicago-based federal courts ruled that the Second Amendment did not apply to the states and local governments, setting the stage for the Supreme Court to decide the question it left unanswered in its Heller decision. Read the decision here. For more information visit the National Shooting Sports Foundation website, where you also can see a video from NSSF President Steve Sanetti about this decision. The Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation has posted a news release here. Comments
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