1. Do YOU have a right to "bear arms"?
- Author
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Greenhouse, Linda, Liptak, Adam, Stout, David, and Smith, Patricia
- Subjects
ACTIONS & defenses (Law) ,FEDERAL courts ,GUN control - Abstract
The article discusses a court case wherein the plaintiff challenges the decision of a lower federal court in the District of Columbia against the plaintiff's petition to be allowed to bear arms, citing the Second Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to finally interpret the law which was never directly interpreted in the past. According to the article, the decision of the Supreme Court will be deemed as the most significant ruling regarding the constitutionality of gun control.
- Published
- 2008