Sensible Gun Regulation Isn't Unconstitutional
Conservative majorities in legislatures in the Southern and Western U.S. have aggressively expanded gun rights in recent years. But there is one venue where the conservative majority has proved surprisingly reluctant to join this movement: the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2008, the court's five conservatives issued the landmark 5-4 decision in Heller v. District of Columbia, which held that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. Gun-rights proponents have been pushing both to clarify and expand that ruling ever since.
While the gun-rights movement's legislative success in conservative states has been extraordinary, its record in the courts has been mixed. In 2014, the Supreme Court opted not to weigh in on a New Jersey law requiring residents to show a “justifiable need” to carry a handgun in public. Now it has sidestepped a dispute over a San Francisco law that places limits on handguns inside the house.
The city's police code requires handguns at home to be stored in a locked container or disabled with a trigger lock when not carried on the person. The Supreme Court let stand a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that said the 2007 law did not significantly impinge on gun owners' Second Amendment rights.
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