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Right to Bear Arms at the U. S. Supreme Court Supreme Court to hear case regarding right to own and keep a hand gun in the home for self-defense. See some suggested reading below. Parker v District of Columbia was a case filed by Shelly Parker, a woman who resides in Washington, D.C., and who wishes the be allowed to keep a handgun in her home for self-defense. Read "The Parties" at the following link: http://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/gunsuit.pdf Christian Science Monitor: "In agreeing to take up the Heller case, the court rejected questions posed by both sides in the litigation and wrote its own question. The question: "Whether the following provisions [three sections of the D.C. gun law] violate the Second Amendment rights of individuals who are not affiliated with any state-regulated militia, but who wish to keep handguns and other firearms for private use in their homes?" If you have an article to suggest for reading, or an opinion you wish to have published in connection with this court case before the U.S. Supreme Court, email it to harlemherald@optonline.net Google: Reading Suggested by the Harlem Valley Herald: Wikipedia Summary of the Case and History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_v._District_of_Columbia Cato Institute, including link to full text of the original Parker Complaint Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Shelly Parker Case Document Christian Science Monitor
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