Examiner (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)In this June 26, 2008 file photo, pro-rights gun supporters hold up banners outside the Supreme Court in Washington after the court ruled that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense. Criminal defense lawyers say the high court's decision means federal laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... violence are unconstitutional as long as the weapons are needed for self-defense. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) WASHINGTON -- Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns after police found seven pistols, three shotguns and five rifles at his home south of Pittsburgh.As a defense, Barton and...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
... that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes. (Credit: Associated Press/Jose Luis Magana) Heller v. D.C. or Stevens v. Scalia? Over at the Legal Times BLT blog , Tony Mauro provides us with some atmospherics from the Court’s historic, 23-minute session. Justice Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion, and Justice Stevens, who wrote one of the dissents,...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
... that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes. (Credit: Associated Press/Jose Luis Magana) Heller v. D.C. or Stevens v. Scalia? Over at the Legal Times BLT blog , Tony Mauro provides us with some atmospherics from the Court’s historic, 23-minute session. Justice Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion, and Justice Stevens, who wrote one of the dissents,...
