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Does the District of Columbia’s ban on handgun ownership violate the Constitutional right to “keep and bear arms”? Is it cruel and unusual punishment to execute child rapists? The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down rulings in those major cases on Wednesday.
A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia struck down the city’s 31-year-old handgun ban in March, ruling in favor of several Washington residents who wanted guns for self-defense.
The court ruled that “the bar on carrying a pistol within the home, amounts to a complete prohibition on the lawful use of handguns for self-defense. As such, we hold it unconstitutional.”
The city appealed to the Supreme Court. “What is reasonable about a total ban on possession?” Chief Justice John Roberts asked at one point during oral arguments in March.
Even a major gun-control group has called this “the most significant Second Amendment case in the nation’s history.”…
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