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Where Do We Go from Here? Handgun Regulation in a Post-Heller World
Academic journal article from The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3
Beginning of article
INTRODUCTION
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.1
Debate over the meaning of these twenty-seven words has run rampant for centuries. The conflict has revolved around the basic meaning of the Second Amendment: does it protect an individual's right to own a gun, or does it merely extend as far as was necessary to maintain the state militias in 179 1?2
In June 2008 the Supreme Court directly addressed the individual versus collective right question in District of Columbia v. Heller.3 The case involved gun laws in Washington, D. C. that made it a crime to carry …
