The U.S. Supreme Court granted the National Rifle Association’s motion to participate in McDonald v. City of Chicago on March 2. The NRA’s lawyer, former U.S Solicitor General Paul Clement, will argue on their behalf and divide time with Alan Gura, counsel representing McDonald. The NRA’s brief stresses more conventional constitutional grounds for applying the Second Amendment to the states (called the “Selective Incorporation Doctrine”) than the McDonald brief, which asks the court to overrule a Supreme Court case dating back to the 1800s. The case will test whether the Second Amendment restricts the power of state and local governments to pass gun-control laws.-courtesy National Shooting Sports Foundation
