The ruling ended the Court’s nearly 70-year aversion to considering the meaning of the amendment’s oddly constructed language: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
The immediate result of the ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller was to strike down the district’s tough, 32-year-old ban on handguns and its trigger-lock requirement on other firearms, which the city had said were essential to contain violence in the nation’s capital.
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