Here's how the Supreme Court’s narrow gun decision could signal some big conservative rulings to come.
.” This includes the right to carry a gun outside of your home for self-defense without going through the type of permitting process required by New York and about half a dozen other states. The court painted New York’s law as an outlier, noting that while seven states have “may issue” laws, 43 states have “shall issue” laws. Again, these now-illegal permitting schemes require that even after certain requirements are met, a government official still has discretion to deny the permit.
, where the court concluded that the right to bear arms belongs to individuals, not just members of the military, and that this right includes the ability to keep guns in your home for self-defense. The division between the majority and dissenting opinions is yet another example of our two competing camps of constitutional interpretation.
The division between the majority and dissenting opinions is yet another example of our two competing camps of constitutional interpretation. The majority of Supreme Court justices concluded that the best way to interpret constitutional provisions is first to look only at the text; and then if more analysis is needed, to determine what the text meant at the time it was adopted, and to largely ignore any subsequent historical practices and understandings.
When it comes to the Second Amendment, that essentially means the most important part of your search for meaning ends in
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