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TeddyR

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4. To be clear
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 12:05 PM
Mar 2016

I don't think the dissenters in Heller suddenly converted, but (1) they don't have the votes to reverse Heller and (2) so long as Heller is the law of the land the Supreme Court -- including the dissenters in Heller -- are going to require courts to apply it correctly, and the Massachusetts Supreme Court clearly did not in this case, which is why you get a unanimous decision. So while there may not be much more expansion of Second Amendment rights -- I would be shocked if this Court found a constitutional right to concealed carry -- the Court is not going to let the states ignore Heller.

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