United States v. Hemani · ¶18
The Second Amendment protects the right of “all Americans” to keep and bear frearms for self-defense. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570, 581 (2008). Of course, like most individual rights, the Second Amendment has its limits. Id., at 626. American legislatures have long regulated the possession and use of frearms to some degree. See New York State Rife & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U. S. 1, 17 (2022). But when the government crosses the line from permissible regulation into unconstitutional infringement, courts have a duty to say so in the cases before them—no less in the Second Amendment context than in any other. See ibid.; Heller, 554 U. S., at 606.Read in context ›
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