BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Chicago Gun Ban

This was the result we had hoped for.  I'll give more details shortly.

UPDATE:  Here you go:

The U.S. Supreme Court has sent the city of Chicago's long-debated ban on handgun ownership back to a lower court, and ruled in favor of a nationwide right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.

The Supreme Court issued the 5-4 ruling Monday morning in McDonald v. Chicago, which challenged handgun bans in the city of Chicago and in Oak Park.

In the ruling, the court "reversed and remanded" McDonald v. Chicago, which sends the ruling back to a lower court.

The suit also asked the high court to extend to state and local jurisdictions the sweep of its 2008 decision in the District of Columbia v. Heller case, which struck down a gun ban in the federal enclave of Washington, D.C. For this part of the suit, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to keep and bear arms must be upheld in state and federal jurisdictions.

So, apparently the 2nd Amendment does in fact mean what it says.

What hasn't gotten much reporting is the fact that in the year after the Heller case in Washington D.C. restored gun rights to local citizens the homicide rate dropped 25% to a 45-year low.

More guns = less crime.

UPDATE 2:  Another report:

In its second major ruling on gun rights in three years, the Supreme Court Monday extended the federally protected right to keep and bear arms to all 50 states. The decision will be hailed by gun rights advocates and comes over the opposition of gun control groups, the city of Chicago and four justices.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the five justice majority saying "the right to keep and bear arms must be regarded as a substantive guarantee, not a prohibition that could be ignored so long as the States legislated in an evenhanded manner."

The ruling builds upon the Court's 2008 decision in D.C. v. Heller that invalidated the handgun ban in the nation's capital. More importantly, that decision held that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was a right the Founders specifically delegated to individuals. The justices affirmed that decision and extended its reach to the 50 states. Today's ruling also invalidates Chicago's handgun ban.