Supreme Court Ruling on Gun Control

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on gun control which is applying the latest state’s 2nd amendment, will have hardly any effect in the state of Washington. Gun rights already exist here. Since 1889, the Washington Constitution has guaranteed the right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense, which is more or less the rule the Supreme Court has now proclaimed for all the states.

The Second Amendment of Supreme Court ruling on gun control , which grants a right to keep and bear arms, has been in the U.S. Constitution for more than two centuries. But it was only two years ago that the court applied it to individual citizens.

Last week, the court said states, counties and cities cannot wipe out this Supreme Court ruling on gun control. Specifically, the court said Chicago cannot ban handguns entirely. But Chicago, and any other government, can still do many things to restrict guns if it can offer a good reason.

In the past two years, federal appeals courts have ruled that state and local governments can forbid guns to juveniles and illegal immigrants, ban guns with obliterated serial numbers, require a permit for a concealed weapon, ban guns in a government parking lot, ban machine guns, ban unregistered sawed-off shotguns, and impose stricter sentences for crimes.

Under last week’s Supreme Court ruling on gun control 2nd amendment, all these cases still stand, as do the governments’ long-standing power to ban guns in sensitive places such as courthouses and schools. Last week’s decision means there is a limit to such restrictions. A state or city cannot pile on so many that the right to use a handgun for self-defense is meaningless. But the right to own and carry a gun remains subject to reasonable regulation.

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