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Associated Press - June 29, 2010
Posted Jun 29, 2010 -- webcomm
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Associated Press
State or local gun laws that prohibit people from carrying firearms outside the home and onerous registration requirements are the most likely to be struck down by judges following the Supreme Court's latest decision supporting the right to keep and bear arms. Local officials around the country professed confidence that their regulations would hold up under legal scrutiny, but many scholars were not so sure. "I think a lot of these will fall," said David Kairys of Temple's Beasley School of Law. "Can you limit people's ability to carry concealed weapons, or open weapons? That's noticeably absent from the majority's list of what you can do."