District of Columbia v. Heller
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district-of-columbia-v-heller-165-4284128
title:
District of Columbia v. Heller
text:
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms—unconnected with service in a militia—for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and requirement that lawfully owned rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigg
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2008 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
date created:
2007-03-10T01:07:08Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T18:20:44Z
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