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Old 09-14-2009, 05:31 PM  
WarChild
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
Only if your in a militia.
Not so says the Supreme Court.

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The Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia's ban on handgun possession yesterday and decided for the first time in the nation's history that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual's right to own a gun for self-defense.

The court's landmark 5 to 4 decision split along ideological grounds and wiped away years of lower court decisions that had held that the intent of the amendment, ratified more than 200 years ago, was to tie the right of gun possession to militia service

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...062600615.html
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