“mental defectives.”
Who are the mental defectives, by the way? Homophobes? Sexists? Home Schoolers? Fundamentalist Baptists? This is scary stuff.
Don’t forget “Constitutionalists”. Feebies and other “law over principle” types hate us and use the term “Constitutionalist” as a pejorative.
Anyone who would actually want to own one of those nasty, smelly, noisy, icky-poo gun-things just has to be insane.
game. set. match.
“Who are the mental defectives, by the way?”
Those without a Federal Certificate of Mental Competency, perhaps. There may be a test, or an interview or something. /s
The Second Amendment applies to all free persons. It has never applied to people who are, for whatever reason, not free persons.
I don't think the Founding Fathers would have necessarily required someone to have committed a crime in order to be found mentally incompetent and put under someone else's control. Such finding would not have been made lightly, however, nor would it have been reasonable to deny someone's RKBA if it wasn't also reasonable to severely confine their actions in other ways. Significantly, any person who was so restricted would be widely recognized as "not free".