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  2. Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    "Arms" covered by the Second Amendment were defined in District of Columbia v. Heller to include "any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes into his hands, or useth in wrath to cast at or strike another". 554 U. S., at 581." [237] The Michigan Court of Appeals 2012 relied on Heller in the case People v.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. The lethality of "non-lethal" weapons - AOL

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    Non-lethal weapons, sometimes more accurately called “less-lethal,” started to gain traction in the 90s, after the United Nations adopted the Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms ...

  6. Non-lethal weapon - Wikipedia

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    Although generally considered "non-lethal weapons", electromagnetic weapons do pose health threats to humans. In fact, "non-lethal weapons can sometimes be deadly." [58] United States Department of Defense policy explicitly states that non-lethal weapons "shall not be required to have a zero probability of producing fatalities or permanent ...

  7. Right to keep and bear arms - Wikipedia

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    The Mexican constitution of 1857 first included the right to be armed. In its first version, the right was defined in similar terms as it is in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. A new Mexican constitution of 1917 revised the right, stating that its utilization must be in line with local police regulations.

  8. Supreme Court leaves Illinois assault weapons ban in place as ...

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    Various gun rights activists and groups sued to block the law, saying it violates their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment. In 1994 Congress enacted a nationwide ban on assault weapons ...

  9. United States v. Miller - Wikipedia

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    Our decisions belie that argument, for the Second Amendment, as noted, was designed to keep alive the militia. Lewis v. United States (1980); Footnote 8 (the Second Amendment guarantees no right to keep and bear a firearm that does not have "some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia"); United ...

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