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Politics

Obama and Scalia Agree: The 2nd Amendment Doesn't Secure the Right to Wield an AK-47

Damon Root | 8.28.2008 10:53 PM

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Did Barack Obama just endorse Justice Scalia's majority opionion in D.C. v. Heller? The opinion did specify that longstanding bans on "unusual" guns won't be affected.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His next book, Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books), will be published in June 2026.

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