Legal Opinion

Bridgeville Rifle & Pistol Club, Ltd. v. Small

Supreme Court of Delaware

Decided December 7, 2017No. 15, 2017PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

VALIHURA, Justice,

for the Majority:

This appeal concerns guns and, as such, has attracted numerous amici curiae raising politically fraught questions concerning gun rights.1 However, at its core, this case raises straightforward questions of Delaware constitutional and administrative law. We are asked whether unelected officials from the. State’s parks and forest departments, whose power is expressly limited, can ban (except for a narrow exception for hunting) the possession of guns in state parks and forests in contravention of Delawareans’ rights under the State’s constitution. Clearly they…

2Cases cited49 opinions

  1. San Antonio Independent School District v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  2. District of Columbia v. HellerSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
  3. McDonald v. City of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  4. United States v. CruikshankSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  5. Marsh v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1946

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. George Young, Jr. v. State of HawaiiCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2018
  2. Delaware State Sportsmen's Association v. GarvinSuperior Court of Delaware · 2018
  3. Capriglione v. State of DelawareSupreme Court of Delaware · 2021
  4. Garnett v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2023
  5. Gavin J. Birney v. Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland SecurityCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 2022

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