Assertion: second amendment | /r/CapableOf | protect individual right
Facets:
value: including for sporting use
type: PURPOSE
value: to keep firearms
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The question presented by this case is not whether the Second Amendment protects a "collective right" or an "individual right.
text: Following the Heller decision in 2008 in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for private use, the Second Amendment Foundation partnered with Smith & Wesson to create a commemorative revolver.
text: In particular federal courts have recast much of the debate as one over whether the Second Amendment protects a "collective" right or an "individual" right to bear arms.
text: The Second Amendment (1791) protects the right of individuals to keep and bear arms.
text: The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the right of the individual to keep and bear firearms.
text: In the latter half of the 20th century, there was considerable debate over whether the Second Amendment protected an individual right or a collective right.
text: However, beginning with the Fifth Circuit's opinion United States v. Emerson in 2001, some circuit courts recognized that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.
text: In Heller, the Supreme Court resolved any remaining circuit splits by ruling that the Second Amendment protects an individual right.
text: The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
text: But a conclusion that the Second Amendment protects an individual right does not tell us anything about the scope of that right.
text: If the Second Amendment protects only an individual right to bear arms, then only individuals could bring suit to challenge gun-control laws that curb their liberty to buy, sell, own, or possess firearms and other guns.
text: You can find state supreme courts in the mid-1800s where judges say the second amendment protects an individual right.
text: In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment "codified a pre-existing right" and that it "protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home" but also stated that "the right is not unlimited.
text: (2008), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment "codified a pre-existing right" and that it "protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home" but also stated that "the right is not unlimited.
text: Put plainly, the Heller decision says that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess firearms for legal purposes, including for sporting use and for self-defense.
text: The court found that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess firearms.
text: The median interpretation, which holds that the Second Amendment does protect an individual right to bear arms but is restricted by the militia language in some way.
text: In Miller, the Court affirmed a median interpretation holding that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms, but only if the arms in question are those that would be useful as part of a citizen militia.
text: In the 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court held that the "Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
text: The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the individual right to keep and bear arms.[a]
text: The Second Amendment protects the individual right to keep and bear arms.
text: However, the Supreme Court has now definitively held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that weapon for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
text: In striking down Washington D.C.'s handgun ban by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court's decision in D.C. v. Heller held for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms, whether or not associated with a state militia.