“We look to this because it has always been widely
understood that the Second Amendment, like the First and Fourth Amendments,
codified a pre-existing right. The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly
recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it “shall not
be infringed.” As we said in United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542, 553
(1876), “[t]his is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in
any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.”
DC v. Heller
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