[DrMartinVonNostrand]

Legally there is nothing that stops the Government from regulating which arms are and aren't legal. The right to bear arms is quite narrow. That's just the way it is. The Government has to have the ability to regulate it. Otherwise the 2nd Amendment would also guarantee your right to NUCLEAR arms.

The bottom line is you aren't going to get much support in urban areas for assault riffle free for alls. What legitimate reason does anyone in a densely populated city have for assault riffles?

I'm a strong supporter of the Constitution, including the 2nd Amendment. But the true support of the Constitution entails staying true to the intent and strictly construing it. To read into it a free pass on any weapon is a grevious misinterpritation.

[John Lenin]

Go back to Dummies Union you imposter.

[jwalsh07]

Legally there is nothing that stops the Government from regulating which arms are and aren't legal. The right to bear arms is quite narrow. That's just the way it is. The Government has to have the ability to regulate it. Otherwise the 2nd Amendment would also guarantee your right to NUCLEAR arms.

Sheesh, where do you get this crap from. The second amendment's intent was for the inactive militia, in those days all men between the ages of 18 and 45, to be armed with the same weapons as the active milita.

In other words, I should be able to have the M-16 I carried in the Army hanging on my gun rack. I didn't carry nuclear weapons. Did you?

[William Tell]

DrMartinVonNostrand said: "To read into it a free pass on any weapon is a grevious misinterpritation. "

I am not aware of any arms at the time the Constitution was written that were not protected by the Second Amendment. Our Founders did not foresee the invention of nuclear weapons but they did foresee the need to amend the Constitution. It has not been amended with regard to this matter.

The idea that our Founders would have tolerated a ban on a rifle because it has a bayonet lug is ludicrous.

[RS]

"Legally there is nothing that stops the Government from regulating which arms are and aren't legal. The right to bear arms is quite narrow. "

Just when did the Government get the right to redefine the language ?

If this passed when I wasn't looking I guess they could do just about anything.

Depends what the meaning of IS is....

[dirtboy]

What legitimate reason does anyone in a densely populated city have for assault riffles? I'm a strong supporter of the Constitution, including the 2nd Amendment

We usually don't see such mendacity in adjoining sentences - usually weasels like yourself put a paragraph or two between such a blatant contradiction. If the government is empowered to determine the legitimacy of a right, then it really isn't a right any more, as it has just become subjective.