The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment is an individual right and that the District of Columbia violated that right with the ban on handguns and assembled long guns.

A complete analysis is available here.

Richard is a police officer with a medium sized, central Florida department, and previously worked for a Metro-Atlanta agency.  He has served as a field training officer, court officer, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, watch commander, commander of a field training and evaluation program, and general pain in the butt to management-types looking to cut training hours.

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