Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

SPECIAL REPORT:

The Uninvited Ombudsman's Analysis
of the McDonald v. Chicago Decision

by Alan Korwin, Author
Gun Laws of America

Co-author--
The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed! (w/Dave Kopel)
Co-author--
Supreme Court Gun Cases (w/Kopel and Stephen Halbrook)


June 30, 2010

The big headline in the U.S. Supreme Court's McDonald v. Chicago gun-ban-case decision, handed down on June 28, 2010, is that the individual states are now bound by the Second Amendment. Previously, only the federal government was technically bound.

The right to keep and bear arms is "incorporated" under the 14th Amendment and applies to the states, under the Due Process clause used to apply other BOR requirements to the states. For publicity, bragging rights, moral and many legal purposes, this is a big win.

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