Second Amendment & the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms for defense of life and liberty.
In U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), Presser v. Illinois (1886), Miller v. Texas (1894) and U.S. v. Miller (1939), the Supreme Court recognized that the amendment protects an individual right. It has never taken a different view. However, in Salina v. Blaksley (1905), the Kansas Supreme Court invented the idea that the amendment instead protected a “right” of a person to keep and bear arms only while serving in a state militia, and in U.S. v. Tot (1942), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit advanced the idea that the amendment protects the “right” of a state to have a militia.
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court heard its first case specifically centered on whether the amendment protects an individual right to arms. Gun control supporters advanced essentially the "Salina" argument, but the Court, consistent with its previous rulings in Second Amendment-related cases, ruled that the amendment protects an individual right to keep arms and to bear arms "in case of confrontation," without regard to a person’s relationship to a militia.
In McDonald v. Chicago (2010), the court extended the Second Amendment's protection nationwide.
Monday, October 9, 2006
Fairfax, VA- President George W. Bush signed into law the prohibition of confiscation of legal firearms from law-abiding ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Fairfax, VA - The United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 5092, the “Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, ...
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Thanks to your votes and grassroots efforts, efforts, pro-Second Amendment majorities in Congress have ripped out most of ...
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Fairfax, VA-The National Rifle Association is pleased by Tuesday's announcement by House Congressional leaders to include gun ownership ...
Monday, June 26, 2006
Fairfax, VA-The National Rifle Association (NRA) is pleased to announce a successful 2006 legislative session to preserve the ...
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Fairfax, VA—City Attorney Dennis Herrera's statement today that he will seek appeal of the trial court ruling is ...
Monday, June 12, 2006
Fairfax, VA - Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has signed into law the National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed "Emergency Powers ...
Monday, April 17, 2006
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Monday, April 17, 2006
“No lights – no phones – no cops – no protection – and that’swhen they confiscate your guns! ...
Monday, April 10, 2006
Fairfax, VA—Law-abiding citizens of New Orleans who were forced to relinquish their legally owned firearms to the New ...