District Judge Strikes Down State-Law Limit on Permanent Resident Aliens’ Owning Guns

The case is today’s Fletcher v. Haas (D. Mass. Mar. 30, 2012), and it holds that the ban violates the Second Amendment because “permanent resident aliens are among ‘the people’ for whom the Second Amendment the United States Constitution provides a right to bear arms.”

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