Supreme Court Should Uphold Second Amendment Rights

In the decade-plus since the Supreme Court decided D.C. v. Heller, in which the Court vindicated our Constitution’s protection of the individual right to keep and bear arms, many lower courts have tried desperately to avoid that decision’s clear meaning.

Perhaps the most extreme example of this avoidance is in the Fourth Circuit (the federal appellate court covering Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia). There, our Founders’ and Framers’ respect for our natural rights gives way to gun-control ideology, demonizing so-called “assault weapons” and banning them as “weapons of war.”

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Cody J. Wisniewski

Cody J. Wisniewski is a senior attorney for constitutional litigation with the Firearms Policy Coalition and a contributor to Young Voices.

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In the decade-plus since the Supreme Court decided D.C. v. Heller, in which the Court vindicated our Constitution’s protection of the individual right to keep and bear arms, many lower courts have tried desperately to avoid that decision’s clear meaning.

Perhaps the most extreme example of this avoidance is in the Fourth Circuit (the federal appellate court covering Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia). There, our Founders’ and Framers’ respect for our natural rights gives way to gun-control ideology, demonizing so-called “assault weapons” and banning them as “weapons of war.”