Welcome to the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, March 28th.

I'm your host, Anastasia Glova.

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit recently ruled that the Second Amendment

protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. The case in question, Parker v. District

of Columbia, may well be headed for the Supreme Court and in today's podcast I discuss the

decision with lead counsel for the plaintiffs Alan Gora.

Have there been previous challenges to gun legislation?

There's been a lot of talk on the op-ed pages about the 1939 miller decision.

Could you tell me what that's about?

Well, there have been previous challenges to the DC gun control law, but they were not made

on Second Amendment grounds.

The gun community has tried to avoid Second Amendment litigation for a variety of reasons.

The Miller decision is often spoken about because it's the only Supreme Court decision that addresses the Second Amendment at all in any sort of meaningful way.

There's been a lot of misinformation about Miller and I would encourage everybody to simply go out and read the decision and make up your own mind about what it means.

Clearly there's a lot of disagreement.

In Miller, the court was presented with a case in which two individuals were indicted

for having a sought-off shotgun without having paid the required federal tax.

The indictment was thrown out on Second Amendment grounds and the government appealed to the Supreme Court.

In Miller, the government was successful in getting the case reversed.

And what the court said in Miller is this, there was a question as to whether or not the sought-off shotgun in question

was the kind of gun that's protected by the Second Amendment, but there was really

no question at all that Mr Miller and his co-defendant were individuals entitled to assert that right.

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