Comm2A

Question Presented:

Whether the “right to keep and bear arms” protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution as enunciated in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. _____, 128 S..Ct. 2783, 171 L.Ed. 637 (2008) applies retroactively to a person who possessed a handgun in his own home without a registration certificate that was not obtainable at that time by ordinary, law-abiding citizens; and had not asserted his Second Amendment right at a trial held prior to Heller.

As both Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, 130 S. Ct. 3020; 177 L. Ed. 2d 894 (2010) were civil cases, the issue of retroactivity to criminal cases was not directly addressed.

Status: Pending review

Docket: 11-5241

Questions Presented:

1. Does the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protect a right to possess and carry a firearm for self-defense outside the home?
2. If there is a Second Amendment right to possess and carry a firearm for self-defense outside the home, is it constitutional to prohibit law-abiding citizens’ possession and carrying of loaded weapons in motor vehicles while on National Park Service land?

Status: Pending review

Docket: 10-11212

Question Presented:

Whether peaceably carrying or transporting a registered handgun outside the home, without a carry permit that is unobtainable by ordinary, law-abiding citizens, is outside of the scope of “the right of the people to . . . bear arms” protected by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Status: 10/02/2011 - Certiorari Denied.