[VeniVidiVici]

Here you go:

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[12] We therefore conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.”

Colonial revolutionaries, the Founders, and a host of commentators and lawmakers living during the first one hundred years of the Republic all insisted on the fundamental nature of the right.

It has long been regarded as the “true palladium of liberty.” Colonists relied on it to assert and to win their independence, and the victorious Union sought to prevent a recalcitrant South from abridging it less than a century later.

The crucial role this deeply rooted right has played in our birth and history compels us to recognize that it is indeed fundamental, that it is necessary to the Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty that we have inherited.17 We are therefore persuaded that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment and applies it against the states and local governments

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/04/20/0715763.pdf pg 29

[VeniVidiVici]

Actually, it’s hard to believe the Ninth wrote this. Maybe their warm milk was spiked.

[Danae]

This came out of the 9th circuit??

Ok, so who put the truth serum into their coffee.....

This is amazing. Well, one thing is for sure, the filers in the case (on the losing side) will likely take it to SCOTUS.

[Mariner]

I'm wondering what this means for the "Assault Weapons" ban in CA?

Any constituional scholars out there know?

Isn't this the BEST we hoped for in Heller?

[Squantos]

Awesome !

Thanks !

[glock rocks]

We are therefore persuaded that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment and applies it against the states and local governments

Ninth circus?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?