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From American Thinker:

Lovers of freedom, rejoice! Defenders of the Constitution, celebrate! For today, the Supreme Court, that erstwhile judicial body turned dictatorial oligarchy, officially and finally endorsed the individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment. For posterity, I reprint the text of the venerable amendment below:

A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

Justice Scalia wrote the opinion for the 5-4 majority, available here. It's a long but very thorough examination of the textual and historical evidence supporting the view that the Second Amendment codified the pre-existing right of all citizens to keep and bear (ie own, store, carry, and use) Arms. There is precious little evidence to support the opposing view (endorsed by the dissenting justices) that the Second Amendment only protects the right of states to maintain armed militias (i.e. the National Guard), and what little evidence cited is usually distorted or fundamentally misunderstood.