U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Nov. 25, 2014
Public carry and the 2nd Amendment
Likely the most critical issue to be decided in Heller's wake is whether the Second Amendment secures a right to carry firearms in public.
The Second Amendment, in an awkward formulation involving a preamble and an operative clause, provides: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), the U.S. Supreme concluded that the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and bear arms even when unrelated to service in an organized militia, and on ...
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