By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 26, 2008; 12:25 PM
The Supreme Court, splitting along ideological lines, today declared that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to own guns for self-defense, striking down the District of Columbia’s ban on handgun ownership as unconstitutional.
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