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There can be little doubt that the case of the District of Columbia v. Dick Heller is, and will remain for some time, the most important SCOTUS ruling on the subject of gun rights in American history.

"Gun control" advocates had long argued that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was a state right and not an individual one, but in this landmark legal case, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for private use. Let's say that again, just because it sounds so good:

The RIGHT belongs to the INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN and NOT to the government!

For the first time in its history, the Supreme Court of United States directly addressed whether the right to keep and bear arms is a right of individuals or a collective right that applies only to state-regulated militias.