Extension Likely
(GunReports.com)–Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog attended the McDonald, et al., v. Chicago, et al. (08-1521) Supreme Court oral arguments March 2, and offered this gameday account of the proceedings:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with perhaps considerable authority to regulate that right. The dominant sentiment on the Court was to extend the Amendment beyond the federal level, based on the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of “due process,” since doing so through another part of the 14th Amendment would raise too many questions about what other rights might emerge.