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Amendment justice antonin scalia and his colleagues on the supreme court discovered in the heller decision an individual right to bear and carry arms, treating the first clause of the second amendment as if it were totally inconsequential. the founders knew exactly what well regulated militias meant. as the scholar michael waldman told me. >> you had an individual right to gun ownership to fulfill your duty to serve in the militia. every adult white man was required by law to serve in the militia and own a military weapon and keep it at home. >> the latest supreme court ruling striking down a ...

In the 1970s new leadership took over the nra and made it the mission to protect every individual's right supposedly in the second amendment to keep and bear arms. this caused the former supreme court justice, warren berger, conservative jurist appointed by richard nixon, to say the following on pbs in 1991. >> this has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud on the american public by special interest groups i have ever seen in my lifetime. >> 217 years after the ratification of the second amendment justice antonin scalia and his colleagues on the supreme court discovered in th...

Says, to adapt to the heller decision into this decision, and to permit some kinds of regulations. remember the second amendment talks about a well regulated militia, and militias at the time of the framing or well regulated by the states. so the states still reserve to themselves residual power to do reasonable regulations. what the court said today is new york's regulation was not reasonable because it gives too much discretion to administrators to determine what constitutes a good cause. if you feel frightened, if you have had a subjective experience, you can't get a permit in new york. you...

That conservatives want no rules, regulations, it's going to be a free-for-all as if supreme court would abide by that. no. the supreme court in the heller decision stated very clearly that reasonable restrictions are permissible, and indeed, the court then identified several restrictions that were perfectly okay. so we will have to wait and see whether things like background checks and red flag laws with due process are permissible but i suspect that those things would be. >> sean: professor, does this immediately negate the current law in new york? in other words, would people in new york no...

At about the same time a gun-rights advocate was predicting the Far Left will ignore the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upholds lawful possession of a firearm outside the home, New York’s liberal politicians were vowing to fight a decision that guarantees their own citizens have the right to self-defense beyond the living room and bedroom.