The Right of the People To Keep and Bear Arms...

...Shall Not Be Infringed.

By a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court decides that the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which is an individual right to keep and bear arms, is incorporated into the 14th Amendment, which means that it is now the law of the land, and that jurisdictions which have banned handguns, such as Chicago and New York, will have to ease their restrictions and let citizens have tools for self-defense.

Huge victory for freedom and also for the National Rifle Association.

update: Reaction from non-US media include this story from the left-wing UK Guardian newspaper, complete with photograph of a scary, evil AK-47, and this story from the right-wing UK Telegraph newspaper, this one showing a female gun owner with a shotgun.