Supreme Court rules that Second Amendment applies to state and local governments

Today, the Supreme Court issues its long-awaited decision in McDonald v. Chicago, the Chicago gun ban case, ruling that the Second Amendment applies not only to the federal government, but to state and local governments as well.

Read the Court's ruling here.

Justice Alito wrote the majority decision, joined by Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy. Justices Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor dissented.

As expected, the Court incorporated the Second Amendment using the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process clause, rather than the Privileges and Immunities clause advocated by plaintiffs' attorney Alan Gura (the plaintiffs were the petitioners at the Supreme Court, having lost in the lower courts).

Some good news to start the week.

[DE] Del. House Votes To Allow Guns In Public Housing

Delaware House votes to repeal public housing gun ban:

DOVER, Del. (AP) ― The state House has approved a bill allowing tenants in government-run public housing to own firearms.

The bill was approved on a 31-to-9 vote Tuesday despite opposition from Democrats representing districts in Wilmington, a city with several public housing units and a problem with violent crime.

Bill sponsor John Atkins, a Democrat from southern Delaware, said public housing residents were being denied their constitutional right to bear arms. ...

Article here.