The Supreme Court ruled for the first time that gun possession is fundamental to American freedom, giving federal judges power to strike down state and local weapons laws for violating the Second Amendment.
First time, my butt. The federal judges haven't been reading their own product, and certainly have been unfaithful to the people, as "enforcers" of the the constitution. They are usurpers, and dangerous.
Note the date here, 1886, over 120 years ago.
It is undoubtedly true that all citizens capable of bearing arms constitute the reserved military force or reserve militia of the United States as well as of the states, and, in view of this prerogative of the general government, as well as of its general powers, the states cannot, even laying the [second amendment] out of view, prohibit the people from keeping and bearing arms, so as to deprive the United States of their rightful resource for maintaining the public security, and disable the people from performing their duty to the general government.Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886)
That statement is conditioned on militia needs and does not affirm an individual right. Nor has it stopped the state of Illinois from restricting individual ownership (one of two states not allowing concealed carry) even though its constitution explicitly defines militia as being constituted of all able-bodied adults.
That statement is conditioned on militia needs and does not affirm an individual right. Nor has it stopped the state of Illinois from restricting individual ownership (one of two states not allowing concealed carry) even though its constitution explicitly defines militia as being constituted of all able-bodied adults.