[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

The General Principles of Constitutional Law was released in 1880. Cooley treated the Second Amendment as an individual right.

Well, as an attorney, I would say that Cooley’s position still holds.

Specifically, in 2008, in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the SCOTUS for the first time invalidated a law regulating guns and found that the Second Amendment is not limited to protecting a right to have firearms for militia service. This case concerned the constitutionality of a 32-year-old District of Columbia ordinance that prohibited the possession of handguns and imposed significant restrictions on long guns. The SCOTUS, in a 5-4 decision, invalidated the ordinance as it violates the Second Amendment.

I rest my case. :-)

[Lurker]

They later expanded upon it in McDonald v City of Chicago.

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