Oops. Misstep by Rudy. Although maybe he means "reasonable restrictions" like you can't have a cannon on your rooftop. Or mount a machinegun on your car. Maybe those kinds of "reasonable restrictions." After all, there are "reasonable restrictions" on the First Amendment: pornography, can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater, can't threaten to kill the President, etc.
When the 2nd amendment was written, I doubt the founding fathers had WMD (which are arms), tanks, machine guns, hand grenades, etc. in mind.
If by arms, the writers meant single shot musket and maybe rifles, I think everyone is on board with that. I don't think you should be able to keep a nuke in your house and even a hand grenade or RPG is out of bounds.
Can't send out more than 500 pieces of mail mentioning a candidate's name in the 60 days prior to an election without government approval...
Definitely. He let a hint of his true liberal position be known
Although maybe he means "reasonable restrictions" like you can't have a cannon on your rooftop. Or ...
The phrase "reasonable restrictions" is right out of the Sara Brady playbook. It means whatever the anti-gunners want it to mean. According to them England has "reasonable restrictions."
After all, there are "reasonable restrictions" on the First Amendment: pornography
First pornography happens to be legal.
can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater,
No, you can't; however, you can't give everyone a preemptive laryngectomy to prevent their ability to yell if they want. The 2nd amendment is about the right to "keep and bear" not fire at will. You can't use your neighbor's mailbox as a target, but you shouldn't be prevented from buying whatever arm you want and can afford. Restricting peoples ability to buy arms is the same as giving everyone a laryngectomy to prevent abuse of the first amendment. Screw that liberal POS Julie Annie