Explain the Second Amendment's current status, and how that status affects laws relating to gun ownership

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In 2008, the Supreme Court held, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and use it for lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. In writing for the majority, Justice Scalia noted that the opinion should not cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions against possession of firearms by certain persons, nor the carrying of guns in certain places, nor placing conditions on the sale of arms. The Second Amendment remained unincorporated until 2010, when McDonald v. Chicago held that the right of an individual to keep and bear arms was among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty, and therefore it applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.