“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.”
In 1939 the Supreme Court, in United States v. Miller, gave clarification
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment
This interpretation, which does NOT enshrine individual rights to arms, stood for 70 years – until the last dementia afflicted president to attend Nutjob Rifle Association meetings (before the current dementia sufferer dug up the practice that is) appointed Scalia to the bench.
Scalia then, aided and abetted by one Shrub appointee and in the court of the other Shrub appointee, made up the Nutjob Rifle Association dream of an imagined individual right to any and all firearms short of machine guns
THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION NEVER INTENDED THIS ASININE LEGAL SITUATION
In the very best weather conditions a well trained muzzle loading rifleman will be able to place at most three accurate shots out to a hundred yards or so per minute. A brace of pistols was good for two shots indoors.
Anyone who equates the framers notion of a “well regulated militia” with the personal accumulations of assault rifles capable of this
“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.”
In 1939 the Supreme Court, in United States v. Miller, gave clarification
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment
This interpretation, which does NOT enshrine individual rights to arms, stood for 70 years – until the last dementia afflicted president to attend Nutjob Rifle Association meetings (before the current dementia sufferer dug up the practice that is) appointed Scalia to the bench.
Scalia then, aided and abetted by one Shrub appointee and in the court of the other Shrub appointee, made up the Nutjob Rifle Association dream of an imagined individual right to any and all firearms short of machine guns
THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION NEVER INTENDED THIS ASININE LEGAL SITUATION
In the very best weather conditions a well trained muzzle loading rifleman will be able to place at most three accurate shots out to a hundred yards or so per minute. A brace of pistols was good for two shots indoors.
Anyone who equates the framers notion of a “well regulated militia” with the personal accumulations of assault rifles capable of this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting
and this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting
and this
Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting
Are themselves mentally incompetent to own weapons of any type.