News Flash: The Constitution Means What It Says

Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion in yesterday's Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller is historic in its implications and exemplary in its reasoning.

A federal ban on an entire class of guns in ordinary use for self-defense - such as the handgun ban adopted by the District of Columbia - is now off the table. Every gun controller's fondest desire has become a constitutional pipe dream. Full Story »

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