Second Amendment Binds State and Local Governments, via the Fourteenth Amendment
28th June 2010
So holds the Court in McDonald v. City of Chicago, by a 5–4 vote. The syllabus suggests that there were four votes (the five conservatives minus Justice Thomas) for the proposition that the Due Process Clause applies the Second Amendment to the states and their subdivisions; Justice Thomas concluded that it is the Privileges or Immunities Clause that does so.
I, of course, agree with Justice Thomas — as I do in most things.