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|date=June 26, 2008 | |date=June 26, 2008 | ||
|subject=Constitutional Law | |subject=Constitutional Law | ||
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|case_treatment=Yes | |||
|overturned=Silveira v. Lockyer | |overturned=Silveira v. Lockyer | ||
|facts=District of Columbia enforced a handgun ban and requirement that lawfully owned rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock." | |facts=District of Columbia enforced a handgun ban and requirement that lawfully owned rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock." | ||
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|issues=Is the District of Columbia's firearms restrictions a violation of the Second Amendment? | |issues=Is the District of Columbia's firearms restrictions a violation of the Second Amendment? | ||
|arguments= | |||
|holding=Yes. | |holding=Yes. | ||
|rule=The | |judgment= | ||
|comments= | |reasons= | ||
|rule=The Second Amendment 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 | |||
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|case_text_links={{Infobox Case Brief/Case Text Link | |case_text_links={{Infobox Case Brief/Case Text Link | ||
|link=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/554/570/ | |link=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/554/570/ |