The D.C. police chief could make exceptions to the rule but even then, the gun had to be rendered inoperable. "Few laws in the history of our Nation have come close to the severe restriction of the District's handgun ban," the Court concluded.
Nonetheless, at Wednesday's debate, Clinton reiterated her long-held position that Heller was wrongly decided. In other words, Clinton believes that even the most draconian gun laws should be upheld by the courts. Yet she continued to claim that "I support the Second Amendment." Those two positions cannot be reconciled.