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On September 18, 2015, the D.C. Circuit ruled that requiring gun owners to re-register a gun every three years, make a gun available for inspection or pass a test about firearms laws violated the Second Amendment, although the court upheld requirements that gun owners be fingerprinted, photographed, and complete a safety training course. [287]
This was the first gun control measure to be overturned on Second Amendment grounds. [58] The Supreme Court in its ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller said Nunn "perfectly captured the way in which the operative clause of the Second Amendment furthers the purpose announced in the prefatory clause." [59]
Firearm case law in the United States is based on decisions of the Supreme Court and other federal courts.Each of these decisions deals with the Second Amendment (which is a part of the Bill of Rights), the right to keep and bear arms, the Commerce Clause, the General Welfare Clause, and/or other federal firearms laws.
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 ...
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Local author David Hamlin discusses the need for an accurate reading of the Second Amendment to stop gun violence. Celebrating guns is insidious in America — so is misinterpreting Second ...
After striking down the two-step test (formerly used by Courts of Appeals addressing Second Amendment issues), Bruen identified the new originalist test courts must use on Second Amendment cases. The Court held: "When the Second Amendment's plain text covers an individual's conduct [here the right to bear arms], the Constitution presumptively ...
In addition to our gun incompetence, we have perverted the original objective and scope of the Second Amendment. Americans can't handle their guns. Time to repeal the 2nd Amendment.