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- Case reviewed: District of Columbia vs. Heller
- March 18, 2008: Began hearing arguments
- June 26, 2008: Ruled Washington, DC's 1976 handgun ban violated constitutional rights
- Supreme Court ruling: 5-4
- Court's first ruling on the Second Amendment since 1939
- Prohibitions: Illegal for felons the mentally ill to have firearms and no guns in school and government buildings
- Conditions must still be met for commercial sale of guns
- Justices in support: Antonin Scalia, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito
- Justices against: John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer
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On Thursday, June 26, U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a 1976 ban on handguns in Washington, DC is a violation of the Constitution's Second Amendment which protects individuals' right to bear arms.
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