Learn about the Second Amendment, which protects the right to bear arms, and its interpretation and debate over gun control. Explore the historical context, the Miller decision, the right to bear arms protected by the Second Amendment remained uncertain. That uncertainty ended, however, in Heller's district, where the court ruled for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms in his or her home for self-defense. Except for a follow-up decision two years later. The text of the Second Amendment protects the right to “bear arms.” The majority and dissenting judges in District of Columbia v. Heller disagreed on how the phrase "bear arms" was understood. Justice Scalia, writing for the majority, interpreted the phrase broadly to include protection for the carrying of firearms outside of. In addition to restoring the Founders' Second Amendment and reestablishing the inalienable right to bear arms for millions of Americans, Bruen effectively reset Second Amendment law after a decade of dismissive treatment by lower courts. Published in Symposium on the Court's Decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Second Amendment states: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The Supreme Court has not made many decisions regarding the meaning of the Second Amendment.