• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s where the current Supreme Court comes in:

    2008: “Private citizens have the right under the Second Amendment to possess an ordinary type of weapon and use it for lawful, historically established situations such as self-defense in a home, even when there is no relationship to a local militia.”

    https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/554/570/

    2010: “The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment extends the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms to the states, at least for traditional, lawful purposes such as self-defense.”

    https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/561/742/

    2016: “The Second Amendment covers all weapons that may be defined as “bearable arms,” even if they did not exist when the Bill of Rights was drafted and are not commonly used in warfare.”

    https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/577/14-10078/

    2022: "New York’s requirement that an applicant for an unrestricted license to “have and carry” a concealed pistol or revolver must prove “a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community” is unconstitutional.”

    https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/597/20-843/