Public health researchers must be prepared to help judges and lawmakers. “The need for judges to have more access to scientific information and research is long established. The vast majority of Second Amendment challenges since Heller have been rejected lower federal and state courts. In addition to Second Amendment cases, Center faculty have analyzed the role of litigation as a public health tool, served as expert witnesses in relevant cases, and filed friend-of-the-court (amicus) briefs.
Since 2008, courts across the country have found a number of gun safety laws constitutional even after the Heller decision.Ĭenter faculty broadly examine the role of law in gun violence prevention efforts. However, the Court also made clear that, like other constitutional rights, the Second Amendment right is “not unlimited.” In fact, the Court stated that its opinion did not cast doubt on other “longstanding prohibitions” on gun ownershp by certain persons and in certain places.
The Court concluded that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to own handguns in their home.
In 2008, the Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v Heller overturned a ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. The Second Amendment to the US Constitution states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
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