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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