Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals: States Must Respect Individual Right To Keep And Bear Arms
Last year in the landmark DC vs. Heller decision the Supreme Court ruled that the 2nd amendment represents an individual to keep and bear arms. Meaning that each and every citizen in the United States has that right and cannot be denied it.
But still at question was whether or not a given sovereign state could infringe upon that right. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals appears to have settled that matter, ruling that the 2nd amendment is incorporated in the 14th amendment thus requiring the states to respect it as an individual right.
There’s a link to the decision over on the reader blog.
What’s amazing is that this ruling came from the notoriously liberal Ninth Circuit.
Regardless, this is a major victory for gun rights. One with implications for gun control laws (city, county and state) all over the country.
