Gun Rights Go Before the Court

Cass Sunstein, one of America's preeminent legal scholars, had a great editorial piece in last Sunday's Boston Globe concerning what could be the most important Second Amendment case in the country's history. The Second Amendment, for those not familiar with the American Constitution, contains a provision that may or may not provide an unlimited right to own guns in America. Many Europeans are fascinated by the American "gun culture," but few have stopped to ask why owning a gun in America is so easy. The quick answer is the U.S. Constitution talks about gun ownership. Soon the U.S. Supreme Court will define, for the first time in many, many decades, what exactly the Constitution says concerning gun ownership. Prof. Sunstein's article is a must read if you want a basic understanding of what's at issue before the Court concerning this gun rights case.