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Did the Supreme Court change the course of Second Amendment jurisprudence?

Specifically, according to Judge Francis: This all changed, with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller; 128 S.Ct. 2783 (2008), where the court changed the course of Second Amendment jurisprudence by creating what he said was a "protectible liberty interest" in the possession of firearms.

How is the Second Amendment interpreted?

The Second Amendment with its 27 words is interpreted in four ways: as an individual right, a collective right for militia purposes, both an individual and a collective right, and neither individual or collective. In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified its meaning in a landmark decision. What did their ruling specifically support? *

Is self-defense a Second Amendment right?

The Court has held that “individual self-defense is ‘the central component ’ of the Second Amendment right.” McDonald , 561 U. S., at 767 (quoting Heller , 554 U. S., at 599). New York’s law is inconsistent with the Second Amendment right to possess and carry handguns for self-defense. By contrast, 43 States employ objective shall-issue licens

What did the Heller court say about the Second Amendment?

at 15. Consider what the Heller Court actually said. True, the Court spent many pages in Heller discussing the text and historical context of the Second Amendment. 554 U. S., at 579–619. But that is not surprising because the Heller Court was asked to answer the preliminary question whether the Second Amendment right to “bear Arms” en-