USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -City of Chicago, case in which on June 28, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, ” applies to state and local governments as well as to the federal government.

Detailed explanation-2: -The oral arguments took place on March 2, 2010. On June 28, 2010, the Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision, reversed the Seventh Circuit’s decision, holding that the Second Amendment was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment, thus protecting those rights from infringement by state and local governments.

Detailed explanation-3: -A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Detailed explanation-4: -McDonald v. City of Chicago is a landmark Supreme Court case that applied the 2nd Amendment’s right to bear arms to state and local government. When the Bill of Rights was first added to the Constitution, they only protected individual liberties from the federal government, not state or local governments.