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Cato Scholar Comments on D.C. Gun Ban Decision

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Robert A. Levy, plaintiff's co-counsel and Cato senior fellow:

On Thursday, the Court rediscovered the Second Amendment.
More than five years after six Washington, D.C. residents
challenged the city's 32-year-old ban on all functional
firearms in the home, the Court held in District of Columbia
v. Heller that the law is unconstitutional.

Heller is merely the opening salvo in a series of litigations
that will ultimately resolve what weapons and persons can be
regulated and what restrictions are permissible. But because
of Thursday's decision, the prospects for reviving the
original meaning of the Second Amendment are now
substantially brighter.