Archived Your Right To Own Guns Was The Supreme Court's Worst Decision of My Tenure (theatlantic.com)
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'When I joined the Supreme Court in 1975, both state and federal judges accepted the Court’s unanimous decision in United States v. '
' Most, if not all, of those regulations would violate the Second Amendment as it was construed in the 5–4 decision that Justice Antonin Scalia announced in Heller on June 26, 2008. '
'Heller, which recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution, is unquestionably the most clearly incorrect decision that the Supreme Court announced during my tenure on the bench. '
'Boston’s gunpowder law imposed a 10-pound fine on any person who took any loaded firearm into any dwelling house or barn within the town. '
'Throughout most of American history there was no federal objection to laws regulating the civilian use of firearms. '
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