Legal Opinion
Worma v. Healey
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 5, 2018No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:17–10107–WGYPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM G. YOUNG, DISTRICT JUDGE
*254SECOND AMENDMENT, U.S CONSTITUTION
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.
I. THE CONTROLLING LAW
For most of our history, mainstream scholarship considered the Second Amendment as nothing more than a guarantee that the several states can maintain "well regulated" militias. See, e.g., Lawrence H. Tribe, American Constitutional Law 226 n.6 (1978); Peter Buck Feller & Karl L. Gotting, The Second Amendment: A Second Look, 61 Nw. U. L. Rev. 46, 62 (1966); John…
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Ass'n of N.J. Rifle & Pistol Clubs, Inc. v. Attorney Gen. N.J.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2018
- Worman v. HealeyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2019
- United States v. KimbroughDistrict Court, M.D. Tennessee · 2018
- Association of New Jersey Rifl v. Attorney General New JerseyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2018
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