U.S. Supreme Court
Jan. 29, 2013
What've the justices said so far about bearing arms?
Justice Scalia has lamented that Heller represents the Supreme Court's first in depth look at the rights bestowed by the Second Amendment, and "one should not expect it to clarify the entire field." By George Martinez
For decades, even centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court had not determined just what is meant by the Second Amendment to our Constitution. This was true until the 2008 case of District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, and the more recent Supreme Court decision of first impression in McDonald v. City of Chicago, 130 S. Ct. 3020, decided in June 2010.
The Second Amendment provides: "A well regulated militia, being ne...
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