U.S. Supreme Court
Mar. 15, 2008
High Court Examines Gun Rights
The high court on Tuesday will examine the constitutionality of a Washington, D.C., law that bars city residents from possessing handguns. Kern County’s Edward Jagels, left, led 29 California district attorneys who joined a gun-rights amicus brief, and San Francisco’s Kamala Harris led a group of five who filed in support of Washington.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
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Few issues divide Americans so starkly as gun control, and that's true even in California's law enforcement community, which finds itself in an unusual public split over a blockbuster gun-rights case coming to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a case that could finally settle the meaning of the Second Amendment ri...
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