SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

[zenmonger]

The Constitution says "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." Doesn't that imply that the arms the People should bear should be military equivalent in order to be a useful and well regulated militia?

I love it when anti-gun people try to say "Well, the 2nd Amendment was written when they only had single shot weapons, and it wasn't intended for today's modern weapons..." I tell them that they are right about the muzzle loaders - and that the founding fathers clearly intended that the PEOPLE should have the exact same weapons as the military. Then there are those who say "You don't need an assault rifle to hunt." Again, I tell them they are right about not needing an AR to hunt, but the 2nd Amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with hunting. It is only concerned with fighting a tyrannical government.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

When the 2nd Amendment was written all they had were muzzleloaders...those were the modern state of the art firearms of the time....If we could own modern state of the art firearms then why not now , would be my question...

Why wouldn't the writers and creators of the Bill of Rights , want us to have modern state of the art firearms...or any firearm of our choosing?
It isn't like we are restricted to just newspapers and books for the 1st Amendment....
Andy

 

[ma96782]

Aloha, Mark

 

[Inquisitor]

To assign convoluted interpretations of words in order to purportedly clarify a law written in plain language is an intrinsic contradiction, the purpose of which can only be to obfuscate the original intent of the framers of that law.

This is NOT a States' rights issue. It is the responsibility and authority of the Federal Government to guarantee that the States honor and comply with the Constitution of the United States.

The Right to Bear Arms, and Retro-active Laws Declaring Certain Firearms & Magazines Illegal

The Constitution of the United States (with "of the people" underlined)
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Article. I.
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Section. 9.
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No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
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Section. 10.
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
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Article. IV.
Section. 1.
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Section. 2.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
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Article. VI.
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This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
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Amendments 1-10: The Bill of Rights
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Amendment II
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.
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Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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Amendments 11-27
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AMENDMENT XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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