Until fourteen years ago,
the Second Amendment was little more than a relic of America’s early republic.
But in 2008 the Supreme Court decided that the “right to keep and bear arms”
provides not only for the needs of “a well-regulated militia” (as the amendment reads)
but for the liberty of individuals to keep firearms in their homes for self-defence.
On June 23rd,
in its long-awaited landmark ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen,
the court expanded that right to include carrying a weapon outside one’s home.