Chisom v. State of Louisiana

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[u]nder any of the standards of scrutiny that we have applied to enumerated constitutional rights,” the District of Columbia’s challenged ban “would fail constitutional muster”
• holding that “[l]ike most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited”
• holding that individuals have a right to keep and bear arms for the purposes of self-defense
• holding that the District's total ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment
• holding that the second amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms
• recognizing that handguns are commonly “used for self-defense” (emphasis added)

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