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Old June 29, 2010, 12:24 AM   #43
Rotnguns
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Here is a quote from an analysis posted on SCOTUS Blog which supports my position. To be fair, there is at least one other analysis on SCOTUS Blog which holds that Alito's opinion did not confer a strict level of scrutiny.

Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., in the Court’s main opinion, did make one thing unmistakably clear to lower court judges: the right to have a gun for self-defense in the home is a “fundamental” constitutional right. That one-word label carries enormous import. Ordinarily, if a right is deemed to be fundamental, any law that seeks to limit it will be judged by the stiffest constitutional test there is: it must satisfy “strict scrutiny,” meaning that it will be struck down if the government’s need for it is not “compelling” and if the approach it takes is not the narrowest possible way to get at the problem. Some laws can survive “strict scrutiny,” but not a great many do.

Two years ago, when the Court struck down a flat ban on handguns that had been enacted in Washington, D.C., that was the first time it had found that the Second Amendment guaranteed a personal right to have a gun for self-defense in the home, enforceable against federal laws or those in the federal capital city (District of Columbia v. Heller). It nullified that law without saying that it was using a “strict scrutiny” test; indeed, it said that ban would fail using any constitutional test. So, the similar handgun ban adopted in Chicago (and in other cities, such as Toledo and Oak Park, Ill.), may well be doomed. But that may be the easiest kind of law for judges to nullify under the Amendment. Justice Alito remarked that there was “a paucity of precedent” in state courts, when viewing gun rights under state constitutions, for upholding such flat bans.
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