Because if they admitted that it IS unrestricted they would have to admit the entire NFA-34 is also unconstitutional!
The fence straddling "it is, except when it's not" disappoints me beyond description.
It's just to much like Klinton's "depends on the definition of "is".
The constitution is NOT a "living document", and may be the last legal document ever to be written in plain English.
It's time to fully restore our constitution, and arrest those who commit truly criminal acts, not those who merely posses inanimate objects some socialist disapproves of.
Of course it is. What with all the folks sworn to support and defend it, and with it's provision for it's own amendment. What it isn't is an infinitely "interpretable" document. It means what it says, and that meaning doesn't change with time, absent a formal amendment.