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Gun rights fight on docket

Source: Chicago Tribune

Chicago : IL : USA | 2 months ago

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Supreme Court set the stage Wednesday for a historic ruling on gun rights. At issue is whether state and local gun-control ordinances can be struck down as violating the "right to keep and bear arms " cited in the Second Amendment. A high court ruling on the city's 27-year-old ban, which could come by summer,...

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