No, it has to comply with the second.
Key question: Who says it didn't? AFAIK, the 1994 federal AWB wasn't challenged on second amendment grounds.
Yes, that's true. But the law wasn't written under the second amendment, and does not rely on the second amendment for its constitutionality. It was written under the commerce clause, and I thought you knew that. If you didn't know that then I apologize for berating you.
For anyone to say that a law outlawing bayonet lugs was written "despite the second amendment" would be disingenuous.
385 posted on 06/08/2004 12:43:55 PM PDT by robertpaulsen