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Courts Across America 'Opening Pandora's Box of New Gun Litigation'
1 July 2008
Indianapolis Star (Indiana), Column
The gun lobby at last holds its Holy Grail: a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that the oddly worded Second Amendment, which speaks of a "well regulated militia" in the same sentence as "the right of the people to keep and bear arms," does, in fact, bestow upon individuals a constitutional right to own weapons.
Yet it seems that the most extreme crusaders of the right were not sufficiently careful in what they wished for. Even the five conservative justices who took... (GunPolicy.org)