Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Individual Gun Rights

Today the US Supreme Court ruled as expected in MacDonald v Chicago. In a 5–4 rul­ing, they reit­er­ated their pre­vi­ous rul­ing (Heller v District of Columbia) that the Second Amendment guar­an­tees indi­vid­u­als’ rights “to keep and bear arms.” They also stated, clearly, that the rul­ing does not pre­vent state and local gov­ern­ments from regulating

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MELENDEZ-DIAZ v. MASSACHUSETTS

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The recent Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) deci­sion in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts has sent a shock­wave through the foren­sic sci­ence com­mu­nity in the United States.

In a com­mu­nity com­ment forum for foren­sic sci­en­tists, there was a com­ment from an ana­lyst from another coun­try, that stated they didn’t see what the big deal was

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