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Supreme Court Gun Ban Veto Triggers Review of Massachusetts Law
27 June 2008
Boston Herald
Yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns will force Massachusetts officials to review the state's gun laws, long considered among the toughest in the nation.
In the justices' first major pronouncement on gun rights, the court ruled 5-4 that Washington's ban was incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said her office was reviewing the... (GunPolicy.org)