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copperline
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Scalia's opinion on gun control
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1/19/2013 10:04:36 AM
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most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. it is not a
right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and
for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been
upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not
be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of
firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of
firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings,
or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of
arms. [United
States v.] Miller’s
holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the
time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of
dangerous and unusual weapons.
Justice Antonin Scalia, 2008 ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller
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