Article: The death knell for Illinois handgun bans?(District of Columbia v. Heller)

District of Columbia v Heller marked the first time the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Second Amendment right of an individual to own a firearm. (1) In Heller, the Court struck the District of Columbia's ordinance that banned possession of handguns and mandated all registered firearms be kept unloaded and locked.

Heller was a headline-grabbing decision. Commentators plundered the thesaurus for adjectives capturing the gravity of the situation. Politicians sought to make themselves heard above the clamor, lauding or lambasting the ruling as they saw fit.

Stripping away the superlatives and pejoratives, the case does answer significant Constitutional questions. But what ...

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