Supreme Court to Rule on Second Amendment
Joan Biskupic
USA Today
September 30, 2009
[efoods]The U.S. Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will return to the controversy over individual gun rights by hearing an appeal from a group of firearms owners in Chicago.
They are challenging a lower appeals court ruling that said the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to guns only in the face of federal regulation, not against state and municipal restrictions.
Included among 10 new disputes the justices added to their calendar Wednesday for the upcoming 2009-10 term, which begins next Monday, the guns case brings the court back to a sensational topic that pits uniquely American notions of frontier liberty against contemporary worries over urban violence.
When the justices heard a case on the subject in March 2008, people began lining up in front of the court’s columned building two days early for a seat.
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