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Supreme Court appears to suggest right to guns at home extends to carrying them in public too

  • Written by Morgan Marietta, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Supreme Court appears to suggest right to guns at home extends to carrying them in public tooSupporters of gun controls rally outside the Supreme Court.Joshua Roberts/Getty Images

Faced with the question “does the constitutional right to possess a gun extend outside the home?” the majority of the Supreme Court appears to be heading toward the answer “yes.”

On Nov. 3, 2012, justices heard oral arguments over New...

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