New at Reason: Steve Chapman on Sotomayor's Second Amendment Record

June 18, 2009

Last summer, the Supreme Court, for the first time ever, said the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for self-defense. It was a historic decision that put real limits on gun control. But gun-rights advocates complain that someone didn't get the memo—someone named Sonia Sotomayor. Yet as Steve Chapman writes, Sotomayor's Second Amendment record is a model of judicial restraint that is entirely appropriate given the Supreme Court's record.

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