Earlier this month the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a set of amendments to California`s Assault Weapons Control Act. Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote the 72-page decision as a brief for his assertion that the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to own firearms. "Conditions are now ripe for the U.S. Supreme Court, which has not dealt with gun control issues since 1939 (and then rather cryptically), to resolve whether the Second Amendment confers an individual right to bear arms or a collective right that can be exercised mainly by members of an organized militia," says the Orange County Register.
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