Thread: Interesting article on McDonald v. Chicago

http://reason.com/archives/2012/02/0...and-federalism

In McDonald v. Chicago , its landmark 2010 decision striking down that city’s handgun ban, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms applies against state and local governments via the 14th Amendment, which declares: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

If you ask most libertarians, they will probably tell you that McDonald was a great victory for individual rights. But that view isn’t unanimous. Most notably, the distinguished New York University law professor and libertarian legal icon Richard Epstein will tell you that the Supreme Court got it wrong.

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