Legal Opinion
Parker v. District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 9, 2007No. 04-7041PublishedCited by 226 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.
Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.
SILBERMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Appellants contest the district court’s dismissal of their complaint alleging that the District of Columbia’s gun control laws violate their Second Amendment rights. The court held that the Second Amendment (“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”) does not bestow any rights on individuals except, perhaps, when an individual serves in an…
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