Supreme Court Gun Cases In Usa. here are ten landmark Supreme Court cases in the USA that involved gun rights and the interpretation of the Second Amendment:
Supreme Court Gun Cases In Usa
- District of Columbia v. Heller (2008): This case established an individual right to possess firearms for self-defense within the home and struck down Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban and trigger lock requirement.
- McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010): This case extended the individual right to bear arms for self-defense to the states and municipalities by incorporating the Second Amendment via the Fourteenth Amendment.
- United States v. Miller (1939): This case addressed the National Firearms Act of 1934 and involved a challenge to a federal law regulating sawed-off shotguns. The Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects firearms that have “some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia.”
- Caetano v. Massachusetts (2016): The Court unanimously held that the Second Amendment extends to all bearable arms, including stun guns, and states cannot ban them outright.
- District of Columbia v. Heller II (2011): This case dealt with challenges to additional gun regulations in Washington, D.C., after the Heller decision. The court upheld certain restrictions, such as a ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.
- New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York (2019): The case addressed New York City’s restriction on transporting licensed handguns outside the home, which was challenged as a violation of the Second Amendment. The Court dismissed the case after the city amended the regulation, but the decision left open questions about the scope of Second Amendment protections.
- Caetano v. Massachusetts II (2016): The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that stun guns were not protected by the Second Amendment, despite the Supreme Court’s decision in Caetano v. Massachusetts.
- Kolbe v. Hogan (2017): The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Maryland’s ban on assault weapons, ruling that such weapons are not protected by the Second Amendment.
- Peruta v. California (2017): The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld California’s concealed carry law, stating that the Second Amendment does not guarantee the right to carry concealed firearms in public.
- Wrenn v. District of Columbia (2017): The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down Washington, D.C.’s “may-issue” concealed carry law as unconstitutional and held that the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.
Please note that the Supreme Court may have heard and decided more gun-related cases after my last update, and there might be new developments in the field since then.
