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  2. Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791, along with nine other articles of the Bill of Rights. [1] [2] [3] In District of Columbia v.

  3. List of firearm court cases in the United States - Wikipedia

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    District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) - The Court ruled the Second Amendment to reference an individual right, holding: The Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. [1 ...

  4. Right to keep and bear arms in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Chicago, 561 U.S. 3025 (2010) held that the Second Amendment was fully incorporated within the 14th Amendment. This means that the court ruled that the Second Amendment limits state and local governments to the same extent that it limits the federal government. [88] It also remanded a case regarding a Chicago handgun prohibition.

  5. What Does the Second Amendment Really Mean? - AOL

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    Since it takes a super-majority of 38 states to repeal an amendment, and roughly 40 states are gun-friendly, Winkler says the Second Amendment is more likely to be amended to expand gun rights ...

  6. The 2024 GOP Platform Barely Mentions Gun Rights - AOL

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    The 2016 Republican Party platform, which condemned Democrats for proposing laws that would "eviscerate the Second Amendment," devoted three paragraphs to gun rights.The 2020 platform did not ...

  7. Right to keep and bear arms - Wikipedia

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    A woman trains real-life defensive gun use scenarios with live ammunition at a video shooting range in Prague, Czech Republic in 2018. The right to keep and bear arms (often referred to as the right to bear arms) is a legal right for people to possess weapons (arms) for the preservation of life, liberty, and property. [1]

  8. Former Supreme Court Justice Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment

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    I’m not against the Second Amendment.” Cameron Kasky, another Marjory Stoneman Douglas student, made a similar point on “Fox News Sunday.” “We are not trying to take everybody’s guns ...

  9. District of Columbia v. Heller - Wikipedia

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    District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms—unconnected with service in a militia—for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and ...