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We need you on board. Welcome to Tom Gresham's gun talk, where a right is always a right, not a privilege.

Hi, welcome to gun talk and boy is that ever true today.

Where a right is always a right, especially today, especially this week, especially

since, well, exactly, 10 o'clock AM Eastern time last Thursday, when the United States Supreme Court delivered its decision in the Heller case, the DC gun ban case.

The United States Supreme Court came in and said, well, what a lot of us knew to be true all along,

but some folks have gotten confused about that for a while, like for the last 70 years or so.

A lot of state and federal courts had gotten confused about what the Second Amendment

was. The Supreme Court came in and said, you know what, the Second Amendment to the United States

is in fact an individual right. This silly, silly notion that somehow it's a collective

right. It's a right reserved for militias. It's a right reserve for the National Guard. The very idea.

Defies understanding of history. But the Supreme Court said, no, no, no, no. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote this beautiful

decision and says, this is an individual right. D.C., the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, cannot ban the ownership of handguns.

Because in D.C. is against a law to own a handgun.

It was against a law to own a handgun. It was against a law to own a functional firearm in your home.

Shotgun or rifle had to be kept disassembling and unloaded or unloaded with a trigger lock or some

kind of locking mechanism on it. In other words, you could not have a gun that you could use to protect your daughter, your son, your infant, your wife, your husband, or yourself could not have a firearm that worked

in D.C.

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