As predicted by me earlier this will be a real barnburner of a legal fight.
Can a governmental agency put restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms, if you're not part of a militia, and is being part of a militia a requirement under the original intent of the framers of the Constitution?
Supreme Court Agrees to Take D.C. Gun Case
Tony Mauro: Legal Times
November 21, 2007
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will take up the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, setting the stage for its first hard look in nearly 70 years at the meaning of the Second Amendment's "right of the people to keep and bear arms."
Washington, D.C., Attorney General Linda Singer petitioned the Court to reverse a March 9 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that the amendment protects an individual, rather than a collective or militia right to keep arms. On that basis, the D.C. Circuit, in a decision written by senior judge Laurence Silberman, struck down D.C.'s strict gun control ordinance.
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