Scalia said the second amendment was not about individual rights. Professor of history and political science at stanford university says Scalia's reading of the history is just wrong. The people will not be prived of the right to keep and bare arms, i think. This was as good as it got for him on the bench, i Think.
It wasn’t until 2008 that the US Supreme Court established what a confusing sentence in the Constitution really meant for gun ownership.
Sean Rameswaram reported on District of Columbia v. Heller for Radiolab’s More Perfect.
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