CATO FILES BRIEF TO EXTEND SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS, PROVIDE PROTECTIONS FOR PRIVILEGES OR IMMUNITIES -- POSTED BY ILYA SHAPIRO, CATO@LIBERTY

Last year, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court confirmed what most scholars and a substantial majority of Americans long believed: that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. Heller led to the current challenge to Chicago’s handgun ban, which raises the question of whether the Fourteenth Amendment protects that

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