SCOTUSBlog.com post-hearing analysis: Second Amendment extension likely
12:15pm Tuesday, March 02, 2010
By Lyle Denniston The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with perhaps considerable authority to regulate that right. The dominant sentiment on the Court was to extend the Amendment beyond the federal level, based on the 14th Amendment's guarantee of "due process," since doing so...