The Supreme Court held on Monday that the “right to keep and bear arms” is national, with Justice Alito writing that the Second Amendment “applies equally to the federal government and the states.” The decision calls into question local gun-control laws around the country, though the Court indicated that laws less strict than the Chicago handgun ban they were reviewing could still be legal. The 5-4 decision pitted the court's conservatives in the majority versus its liberals in the minority.
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