McDonald v. Vill. of Palatine

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the level of scrutiny applied to gun control regulations depends on the regulation’s burden on the Second Amendment right to keep and to bear arms
• noting that temporal proximity between adverse actions and protected activities is a “fact-intensive analysis.”
• applying a “substantial burden” test to determine whether to apply heightened scrutiny to county ordinance
• applying a “substantial burden” test to determine whether to apply heightened scrutiny to county ordinance
• In “a variety of contexts” the Supreme Court “applies mere rational basis scrutiny to laws that regulate, but do not significantly burden, fundamental rights.”
• Gould J., concurring in part, \would subject to heightened scrutiny only arms regulations falling within the core purposes of the Second Amendment\ and \would subject incidental burdens on the Second Amendment right ... to reasonableness review\

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