• As expected, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision – just minutes ago -- to overturn Chicago’s ban on handguns as challenged by the case of McDonald vs. The City of Chicago,”
• Justice Alito delivered the opinion of the Court concluding that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment right, recognized in District of Columbia vs. Heller, to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense.
• This decision says that the Supreme Court’s landmark 2008 Second Amendment ruling – that individual Americans have a federal right to own firearms -- should also be extended to state and local governments.
• Further information on how broadly or narrowly this decision was worded will be disseminated as more in-depth analyses of the entire Supreme Court decision are made.