McDonald vs Chicago is a five-to-four win for proponents of Second Amendment rights. This is the first case in over forty years to address the issue of whether the Bill of Rights is incorporated against the states. It's so important because it incorporates the Second Amendment right of individual gun ownership into the Fourteenth Amendment so that right will apply against the states. It will lead to legal challenges to other state and firearms regulations. And also confines judicially enforceable constitutional rights to only those rights that are deeply rooted in history and
