Excerpt from
Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, decided by the US Supreme Court, June 26, 2008
2. Like most
rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and
carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose:
For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the
Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt
on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the
mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places
such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and
qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.
Scalia, of course, was known for his adherence to what he perceived as the original language of the Constitution.
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