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86 Supra 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/missourc86 and id is 1 raw text is: A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER: THE SECOND AMENDMENT GUARANTEE FOR THE PREVIOUSLY MENTALLY INSTITUTIONALIZED INTRODUCTION ................. .....................2 I. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS ................................ .......... 6 A. Heller: Establishing the Second Amendment Right and Creating New Questions ..... ...........6 1. Establishing the Second Amendment Right ...... 6 2. Longstanding and Presumptively Lawful Limitations ............................. 8 3. The Murkiness of Heller's Standard of Scrutiny.......................... 10 B. McDonald: Fortifying the Second Amendment Right and Its Limits ..................... ..... 11 1. Fortifying a Right Through Incorporation ....... 11 2. Heller's Assurances Reaffirmed ........... 12 II. CONGRESS, FIREARMS, AND THE PREVIOUSLY MENTALLY INSTITUTIONALIZED............ ................ 13 A. The Gun Control Act of 1968: Regulating the Second Amendment ...................... 13 B. From a Regulation to a De Facto Prohibition: The 1992 Defunding of Relief Programs . ............ 15 C. A Shift of Power: Congress's Faulty Shift to State- Led Relief Programs .......... ............ 17 III. SIXTH CIRCUIT STRIKES DOWN THE PROHIBITION ON FIREARM POSSESSION BY THE PREVIOUSLY MENTALLY INSTITUTIONALIZED. ............. ................ 18 A. Strictly Speaking: The Second Amendment and the Previously Institutionalized ................ 18 B. Gibbons's Concurrence: Different Scrutiny, Same Result .................... ............ 20 1

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