of the right to keep and bear arms: “[S]ince this case represents this Court’s first in-depth ex-amination of the Second Amendment, one should not                expect it to clarify the entire field.” The Court states, “If all that was required to overcome the right to keep and bear arms was a rational basis, the Second Amendment would be redundant with the separate constitutional prohibitions on irrational laws, and would have no effect.”

 

Dissenting Opinions

 

In a dissenting opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens stated that the court’s judgment was “a strained and unpersuasive reading” which overturned longstanding prec- edent, and...

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