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Sorry, but people's feelings don't dictate what the Constitution says on the matter. We have a right to keep and bear arms, and anything you need government permission (like a background check) for is not a right, but a privilege. It's not the "Bill of Privileges (void where prohibited by law)."
"Assault weapons" as you call them are the exact kind of weapon that are meant to be protected by the Second Amendment. Calling them "weapons of war" only underscores this; the whole point of the 2nd was to protect weapons of war, an idea that was upheld in US vs. Miller (where the court incorrectly concluded that short-barreled shotguns had no military purpose, and were therefore not protected under the Second Amendment). |
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| For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution. [Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822) |
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