D.C. Case Could Shape Gun Laws

By Robert Barnes / The Washington Post
The District asked the Supreme Court to save the city's ban on handgun ownership, saying an appeals court's decision overturning the prohibition "drastically departs from the mainstream of American jurisprudence." If the court agrees to take the case, as most legal experts believe is likely, it could lead to a historic decision sometime next year on whether the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects an individual's right to own a gun or simply imparts a collective, civic right related to maintaining state militias. Full story...

Posted by Editor at September 5, 2007 01:24 PM