How did the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause affect the outcome of McDonald v. City of Chicago?

In *McDonald v. City of Chicago*, the U.S. Supreme Court utilized the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to incorporate the Second Amendment against state and local governments.12

By applying the doctrine of "selective incorporation," the Court determined that the individual right to possess and use firearms for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense, is fundamental to the American "scheme of ordered liberty and system of justice". Consequently, the Court ruled that the Second Amendment’s protections are not limited to the federal government but are also applicable to the states. This decision effectively extended the individual rights interpretation established in *District of Columbia v. Heller* (2008) to state and local jurisdictions, thereby invalidating local laws that prohibited the possession of handguns in the home.213