held that the Second Amendment

The Second Amendment, ratified in 1791, provides, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” For more than two hundred years, the Supreme Court remained largely silent on the substance and scope of the Second Amendment. Beginning in 2008, however, the Court issued several consequential decisions interpreting this constitutional provision. That year, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess an operable firearm for certain purposes, including self-defense in the home. Whatever the full extent of the Second Amendment right, the Court wrote, it “surely elevates above all other interests the right of law-abiding ดูหนังออนไลน์