"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" are words not often used by gun-rights advocates. Those words are the first half of the Second Amendment. We had an assault-weapons ban for 10 years. Was the 10-year assault weapons ban an infringement on the Second Amendment? Not in any U.S. court.
Methinks the gun-rights folks think every attempt to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people is just a slippery slope toward confiscation. I don't think the 200 years of gun ownership by our ancestors and my current ownership is going to end. Nor that reasonable regulation will in any way take away our right.
Jim Waldo
Duluth
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