The Calguns Foundation filed and Amicus Brief in support of Otis McDonald et al. in McDonald v. Chicago. Our brief argues that the two most prominent anti-incorporationist scholars of the late 20th century were wildly incorrect about the meaning of the Privileges or Immunities clause in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment and that their positions have been thoroughly discredited by superior modern legal scholarship and thus the Second Amendment is clearly incorporated by Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Counsel to CGF on this Amicus was Erik Jaffe, a very well respected Supreme Court Appellate counsel and a former Clerk for Justice Thomas. For an example of his work, here is his Amicus from Heller filed on behalf of The Institute for Justice.

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Oral arguments in McDonald are in February with a decision likely at the end of June 2010.