Nighthawk117 said:
super_etecoon said:
Could you please quote here the relevant section?
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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.[92]
The Second Amendment protects the individual right to keep and bear arms.
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Actually this is not totally correct. The Supreme court already stated that the Constitution does not give individuals the right to bare arms. Look up United States vs Cruikshank(1876).
Snipit from the ruling
The Justices stated "The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The Second Amendment means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress, and has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the National Government."[5]
The right there specified is that of "bearing arms for a lawful purpose." This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed, but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress. This is one of the amendments that has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government, leaving the people to look for their protection against any violation by their fellow citizens of the rights it recognizes, to what is called, in The City of New York v. Miln, 11 Pet. 139, the "powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what was, perhaps, more properly called internal police," "not surrendered or restrained" by the Constitution of the United States.[5]
There is a more recent case United States vs Miller(1939).
Basically, the national government cannot restrict your rights to bear arms but your state and local government can. Its down to the state level on what they want to restrict or allow. There are actually 6 states that actually has no constitutional right to keep and bear arms.