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Justices Rule for Individual Gun Rights

Divided Supreme Court Strikes Down D.C. Gun Ban.

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The 5-4 ruling was the first ever to directly address the meaning of the Second Amendment’s ambiguous text, but the decision left open the possibility that less restrictive state laws were permissible.
Read entire article at NYT