News Flash: The Constitution Means What It Says

Heller says that there may not be bans on guns “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.”

This should go a long way towards protecting the people's right to a proper battle rifle, like the AR-15. Throughout history civilian copies of all battle rifles have been made available to the people for their use.

It is now beyond dispute, in an American court, that self-defense is an inherent right, and that it is protected by the United States Constitution.

Quoted from SCOTUS Blog. Points Ben Winograd makes in his well worth the time to read, posting on the merits of the Heller decision.

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.

Now if we could only revise and extend the SC to the point where it debated the Constitution on every issue, then we would have something. This penumbra and emanations approach is damaging their credibility.

Read the rest here.

When will we see the ACLU defend this self defense right as vigorous as the defend the other? Doubful, it will be up to gun owners to continue the pursuit, and to push back the hoards, but, it's a good start.