Supreme Court to Look at Local Gun Control
The Supreme Court recently agreed to decide whether strict local and statewide gun control laws are in violation of the second amendment, which will likely result in another battle over gun control with high media exposure. The court will be examining a recent ruling by a lower court that upheld a handgun ban in Chicago. This new case will examine whether a ruling last year that banned handguns should be applied to local and state regulations.
Judge Frank Easterbrook, who was appointed by Presiden Reagan, said that “Federalism is an older and more deeply rooted tradition than is a right to carry any particular kind of weapon.” Judges on both courts have said that only the Supreme Court could decide to extend last year’s ruling to a country-wide law. The case will be argued next year.
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