Attor­ney Alan Gura, with whom I had the plea­sure of din­ing just before he argued Dis­trict of Colum­bia v. Heller to the United States Supreme Court, is now chal­leng­ing Chicago’s hand­gun reg­u­la­tions. The Court granted cer­tio­rari last month. The case, McDon­ald v. Chicago, goes fur­ther than Heller did because the Dis­trict of Colum­bia is a Fed­eral juris­dic­tion. Heller didn’t address whether the Sec­ond Amend­ment also applied against state gov­ern­ments. McDon­ald will now try to answer that ques­tion. Apply­ing the pro­tec­tions of the Bill of Rights (which on their face apply only to the Fed­eral gov­ern­ment) to the states is a legal process called [ . . . ]

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