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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Et Al., Petitioners, v. Dick Anthony HELLER

Dick Heller applied for a handgun license in Washington D.C. but was denied based on a city law prohibiting handgun possession without a license and requiring trigger-locks on lawful guns. Heller sued arguing the law violated the Second Amendment. The district court dismissed the complaint but the appeals court found the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case to determine if the city's laws were constitutional.

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Et Al., Petitioners, v. Dick Anthony HELLER

Dick Heller applied for a handgun license in Washington D.C. but was denied based on a city law prohibiting handgun possession without a license and requiring trigger-locks on lawful guns. Heller sued arguing the law violated the Second Amendment. The district court dismissed the complaint but the appeals court found the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case to determine if the city's laws were constitutional.

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128 S.Ct.

2783
Supreme Court of the United States

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al., Petitioners,


v.
Dick Anthony HELLER.
No. 07–290.
Argued March 18, 2008.
Decided June 26, 2008.

FACTS:
Dick Anthony Heller was a D.C. special police officer who applied for a
registration certificate from the city of Washington D.C. for a handgun he
wished to keep at home. A Washington, D.C. statute prohibited
possessing a handgun in the home without a license, and it also
required any lawful handgun kept in the home to be rendered
inoperable through use of a trigger-lock. The District of Columbia
(defendant) denied Heller’s application for a registration
certificate based on its law. Heller then filed a lawsuit in federal
district court for the District of Columbia arguing that the city’s
bar on the registration of handguns, its prohibition on guns in the
home without a license, and its requirement of trigger-locks for
lawful guns in the home all violated the Second Amendment. The
district court dismissed Heller’s complaint, but the Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed because the
Second Amendment grants an individual the right to bear arms.
The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari.

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