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District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

admin · 2026-03-16T23:03:41.307Z

Heller is one of those cases where most gun owners know the outcome but not the details — and the details matter more than people realize. Especially the stuff Scalia explicitly carved out. Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the co...

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District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is the Supreme Court case that answered the question American gun owners and lawmakers had been arguing about for generations: does the Second Amendment protect an individual's right to own a firea

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