The following excerpt is from Richards v. County of Yolo, No. 2:09-cv-01235 MCE-DAD (E.D. Cal. 2011):
8. Though the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense is a fundamental right, "that right is more appropriately analyzed under the Second Amendment. Id. (citing Albright v. Oliver, 510 U.S. 266, 273 (1994) ("Where a particular amendment provides an explicit textual source of constitutional protection against a particular sort of government behavior, that Amendment, not the more generalized notion of substantive due process, must be the guide for analyzing those claims." (internal citations omitted))).
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