The Second Amendment occupies a curious place in American legal history. It has been sitting right there in the Bill of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Dick Anthony Heller is a Plaintiff with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2008 News Conference. Most common tags: Second Amendment, District of ...

LITTLE ROCK — With its landmark ruling in the 2008 case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment bestows an individual right to keep and bear arms. The fact ...

When the case of District of Columbia v. Heller was before the Supreme Court, Mayor Bloomberg filed a brief in support of the District’s handgun ban, arguing that a militia-only interpretation of the ...

The District of Columbia's ban on firearm magazines that hold over ten rounds was the subject of oral argument in the D.C. Circuit on February 13. The case is Hanson v. District of Columbia, and the ...

In his April 17 column in defense of banning modern sporting rifles like the Armalite 15, Rich Moniak states: ” As I’ve written numerous times, in the majority opinion in District of Columbia v.

District of Columbia v. Heller was decided during the OT 2007 Term. Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion and Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the principal dissent. In 2019, Justice Stevens wrote ...

The Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller considered the Second Amendment to be an offshoot of Anglo-American common law. And as such, Heller made clear that the government had the authority ...

Emergency application for a writ of injunction pending certiorari denied on December 14, 2023. Issue: (1) Whether the state of Illinois" absolute ban of certain handguns is constitutional in light of ...