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Podcast: The Andrew Branca Show
Episode: Reading of "DC v. Heller": 2nd Amendment is INDIVIDUAL Right! (1/4)
Description: In today's show Attorney Andrew Branca begins a reading of the 2008 US Supreme Court decision of DC v. Heller.Heller is the seminal Supreme Court decision finding that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is an INDIVIDUAL right, and not merely a "right" of some government militia, and thus not subject to whimsical infringement by the Federal government.As a result, the then-existing laws of the District of Columbia (effectively, the Federal government) prohibiting the ownership by American citizens of handguns in the home was deemed unconstitutional.This reading of...