The US Supreme Court rules that Americans have a fundamental right to carry firearms in public, in a landmark decision that comes just weeks after another deadly school shooting
Over the past two decades, more than 200 million guns have hit the US market, led by assault rifles and personal handguns, feeding a surge in murders, mass shootings and suicides.
Despite a growing call for limits on firearms after two mass shootings in May stunned the country, the court on Thursday sided with advocates who said the US Constitution guarantees the right to own and carry guns. The US Senate is currently considering a rare bipartisan bill that includes modest gun control measures.The Supreme Court ruling is the first by the court in a major Second Amendment case in a decade and a victory for the powerful gun lobby, the National Rifle Association.
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