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Supreme Court: 2nd Amendment – Right of Individual to Keep and Bear Arms

Today the Supreme Court issued a historic ruling overturning Washington, D.C.’s ban on handguns and on self-defense in the home, in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller.

It vindicates individual Americans all over this country who have always known that this is their freedom worth protecting,” declared NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. “Our founding fathers wrote and intended the Second Amendment to be an individual right. The Supreme Court has now acknowledged it. The Second Amendment as an individual right now becomes a real permanent part of American Constitutional law.”

More commentary to come but for now you can download and read the case
Supreme-Court-2nd-amendment.pdf

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