Thirteen years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court established that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to possess handguns for personal protection. Two years later, in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the court affirmed that the right applied to citizens across the nation.
Since then, lower federal courts have taken different views …
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