How will this affect the Lautenberg Act in regards to domestic assault misdemeanors?
Answer McDonald is unlikely to have any immediate or definite impact. First, the Supreme Court reiterated what it said in Heller about the Second Amendment not being a bar to laws prohibiting possession by “felons and the mentally ill”: “It is important to keep in mind that Heller, while striking down a law that prohibited the possession of handguns in the home, recognized that the right to keep and bear arms is not ‘a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.’ … We made it clear in Heller that our holding did not cast doubt on such longstanding regulatory measures as ‘prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill,’ ‘laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.’ While it is true that Lautenberg involves not felonies but domestic violence misdemeanors, the court did no
