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Cato Video • July 7, 2008 

# Robert A. Levy evaluates *District of Columbia v. Heller*. 

On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court rediscovered the Second Amendment. More than five years after six Washington, D.C. residents challenged the city¹s 32-year-old ban on all functional firearms in the home, the Court held in *District of Columbia v. Heller* that the law is unconstitutional. Cato Institute Senior Fellow Robert A. Levy comments on the ruling and what was notable about the opinion authored by Justice Antonin Scalia. 

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