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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


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.

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).

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