The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Second Amendment’s guarantee of an individual’s right to bear arms applied to state and local laws.
The case, McDonald v. City of Chicago, involved Chicago’s longtime ban on handguns. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the 5-to-4 majority, said the decision does not imperil every law regulating firearms, like those prohibiting gun possession by felons or bans on firearms in schools. But the court left unanswered just what other types of gun control laws — beyond an outright ban on handguns — might also violate the Second Amendment.
