. >>> dick heller. this is dick heller. those of you that heard of heller supreme court, this is dick heller. it's a real man. right? >> a real dude. >> it's a real dude. he's a real dude. he is a dude. we're great friends and he has changed my life in the sense that i have the right and have a gun at home legally in district of columbia solely because of this man's fight. >> thank you. >> so dick, take me back because people hear about the heller decision and don't realize it was one man that fought and fought and fought for so many years. take me back to, i am sure it was before i was born, when this all started. >> i moved to washington, d.c. in 1976, three months later said oh, my favorite television program is "gunsmoke" i like matt dillon guns, i went and bought one because there were no regulation o regulation or restrictions. i bought that in july, 1976. and in october they passed a law that said you were no longer allowed to own any kind of firearm in d.c., but you could not buy one after that, but you could be gra

. >> this is dick heller very those of you who have heard of the -- this is him. [applause] >> he is a real man. right or dick: a real dude. >> he is a real dude. he is a dude. we are great friends, and he has changed my life in the sense that i have the right and have a gun at home legally in the district of columbia solely because of this man's fight. [applause] dick: thank you. >> so dick, take me back because people tell me about the heller decision and do not realize it was one man that font for so many years -- that fought for so many years. tell me when it started? dick: i moved into washington dc in 1976. a few weeks later i said, oh, my favorite television program is gunsmoke, and i like matt dillon guns, so i went to buy one because there were no regulations, no restrictions. i bought that in july 1976. and in october the d.c. city council passed a law that said you were no longer allowed to own any kind of a firearm in d.c. but you cannot buy one after that, but you could be grandfathered in by coming down to the police station and registering your firea

man sitting inne that courthouse. >> so they said that dick allen an -- heller is such ordinary dude, if they can do that, we can do that. they put together the mcdonnell versus chicago case. and this is just some constitutional history. when the heller decision was majority008, it was a opinion, that the individual right to keep arms, to own a farm -- arms at home cannot be can print -- infringed. that otherad segments, i suggest highly reading the heller decision. it is so readable. it is not boring legal stuff at all. it is really interesting -- not that it wouldn't be interesting, of course. it is not unapproachable, but the problem was overall for the country is that d.c. is not a state, thank goodness. applied to d.c.. what he is talking about is when this couple went to chicago and started a new lawsuit two years later in this report, based on the heller decision, made it for the entire country that we always have the right to bear arms. [applause] fascinating is that 15 minutes after justice scalia said we are not here to a race the second amendment, -- the the secondse amendm

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did ak emma and dick wonderful job. they said the hellerecision, or dick said what they won or emma said what they won was the right to keep, but as we all know, the second amendment says keep and bear arms. important distinction. talk about that. graham: thank you for having us and having this panel. that is an important distinction. the decision had two landmark characters. it established once and for all there is an individual right protected in the constitution that had been unsettled previously. but the facts in the case of discussedand emily was you can own your own gun in your home for self-defense. the court said yes. that leaves open a huge range of practical activities that we all associated with the second amendment that make enjoying the second amendment, exercising that freedom, practical. those were left undecided by heller. in the time since then, what we have seen is state legislatures have decided to fill out the larger meaning of heller. in conservative states like texas where i am from, the practical activities are very r

dick did a wonderful job. i was particularly interested that they said the heller decision or dick said that what they won or emma said that what they won was the right to keep. but as we all know, the second amendment says keep and bear arms. so the important distinction. can you talk a little about that? >> thank you very much. thank you for having us here and having this panel. that's an important distinction. the heller decision had two landmark characters. first, it established once and for all there's an individual right protected in the constitution, that had been unsettled previously. the facts of the case that dick and emma discussed were to can you own your own gun in your home for self defense. and the court said yes. that leaves open a huge range of practical activities that we all associate with the second amendment. they make enjoying the second amendment, exercising that freedom practical. those were left undecided in heller. in the time since then, what we have seen is legislatures filled out the larger meaning. in conservative states like texas where i'm from, practical associated activities are