Focus (Forum & Focus)
Apr. 24, 2008
Private Property
Forum Column - By Joerg W. Knipprath - The Supreme Court should find that, like access to contraception and abortion, the personal right to own firearms is a fundamental liberty interest protected through the due process clauses.
By Joerg W. Knipprath
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Sometime this June, the Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of the D.C. handgun ban in the District of Columbia v. Heller case. The case turns on three main issues: Does the Second Amendment protect an individual right to bear arms or only a state's discretion to organize a militia through collective gun ownership? Are handguns a type of we...
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