[Robert357]

.... the Second Amendment confers a broad right of gun ownership, comparable with the First Amendment's grant of freedom of speech and religion.

It is amazing how un-common, common sense is and how refershing it is to see it in Government.

The US Bill of Rights does confere broad ownership rights for "arms." The 2nd Ammendment is not about duck hunting, no matter what the liberals would like folks to think.

I think that everyone should read the Declaration of Independence and contemplate its relationship to the Second Ammendment.....

"We hold these truths to be self-evident...--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, ...it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

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See the link to the early drafts of the Bill of Rights that I provided earlier in this thread. Early drafts of the Second Amendment (as well as the early drafts of other amendments) make what they meant a lot clearer.

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