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Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by rockymcgilicutty
So if arms cannot be bought or sold or manufactured.In say 300 years that change would not affect anyones right to bear arms?
The right to bear arms is not the right to manufacture and sell arms. If it was they wouldn't be able to put restrictions on any arms. Just like the right to use medical cannabis, by state law, is not a right to manufacture beyond personal use. That is why the feds can raid cannabis clubs.
Yes it is a contradiction, but that is the how the law works. Seems like you just want to intemperate the constitution to suit yourself.
Originally posted by RalagaNarHallas
reply to post by ANOK
bear arms means carry them and if we cant make them how can we carry them.?
Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by rockymcgilicutty
So if arms cannot be bought or sold or manufactured.In say 300 years that change would not affect anyones right to bear arms?
The right to bear arms is not the right to manufacture and sell arms. If it was they wouldn't be able to put restrictions on any arms. Just like the right to use medical cannabis, by state law, is not a right to manufacture beyond personal use. That is why the feds can raid cannabis clubs.
Yes it is a contradiction, but that is the how the law works. Seems like you just want to intemperate the constitution to suit yourself.
The right to bear arms is not the right to manufacture and sell arms
Just like the right to use medical cannabis
That is why the feds can raid cannabis clubs
en.wikipedia.org... pretty informative for a wiki article on such an important matter and thats how they ruled in dc vs heller and the above is the majority opinion
Meaning of "keep and bear arms" In Heller the majority rejected the view that the term "to bear arms" implies only the military use of arms: Before addressing the verbs “keep” and “bear,” we interpret their object: “Arms.” The term was applied, then as now, to weapons that were not specifically designed for military use and were not employed in a military capacity. Thus, the most natural reading of “keep Arms” in the Second Amendment is to “have weapons.” At the time of the founding, as now, to “bear” meant to “carry.” In numerous instances, “bear arms” was unambiguously used to refer to the carrying of weapons outside of an organized militia. Nine state constitutional provisions written in the 18th century or the first two decades of the 19th, which enshrined a right of citizens “bear arms in defense of themselves and the state” again, in the most analogous linguistic context—that “bear arms” was not limited to the carrying of arms in a militia. The phrase “bear Arms” also had at the time of the founding an idiomatic meaning that was significantly different from its natural meaning: “to serve as a soldier, do military service, fight” or “to wage war.” But it unequivocally bore that idiomatic meaning only when followed by the preposition “against,”. Every example given by petitioners’ amici for the idiomatic meaning of “bear arms” from the founding period either includes the preposition “against” or is not clearly idiomatic. In any event, the meaning of “bear arms” that petitioners and Justice Stevens propose is not even the (sometimes) idiomatic meaning. Rather, they manufacture a hybrid definition, whereby “bear arms” connotes the actual carrying of arms (and therefore is not really an idiom) but only in the service of an organized militia. No dictionary has ever adopted that definition, and we have been apprised of no source that indicates that it carried that meaning at the time of the founding. Worse still, the phrase “keep and bear Arms” would be incoherent. The word “Arms” would have two different meanings at once: “weapons” (as the object of “keep”) and (as the object of “bear”) one-half of an idiom. It would be rather like saying “He filled and kicked the bucket” to mean “He filled the bucket and died
Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by TDawgRex
In a place like KY, that, plus deputize every willing armed citizen, there will be a army waiting for the feds
Originally posted by RalagaNarHallas
reply to post by rockymcgilicutty
cannibals(hemp) is not covered in the constitution its WRITTEN on it perhaps they thought that was a strong enough statement
www.savvysurvivor.com... so yeah make them all you want just dont sell them or if you do do it legally
A7) Does the GCA prohibit anyone from making a handgun, shotgun or rifle? [Back] With certain exceptions a firearm may be made by a nonlicensee provided it is not for sale and the maker is not prohibited from possessing firearms. However, a person is prohibited from making a semiautomatic assault weapon or assembling a nonsporting semiautomatic rifle or nonsporting shotgun from imported parts. In addition, the making of an NFA firearm requires a tax payment and approval by ATF. An application to make a machinegun will not be approved unless documentation is submitted showing that the firearm is being made for a federal or state agency. [18 U. S. C. 922( o), (r), (v), and 923, 27 CFR 178.39, 178.40, 178.41 and 179.105] Translation: It IS legal for an individual build a post ban compliant firearm from any combination of parts that could legally be assembled into a legal commercially available firearm by a manufacturer or importer. This includes designs based on the AR15, AK, FAL, 1911 and others that are not protected by patent rights.
Reaction to Heller has varied, with many sources giving focus to the ruling referring to itself as being the first in Supreme Court history to read the Second Amendment as protecting an individual right. The majority opinion, authored by Justice Scalia, gives explanation of the majority legal reasoning behind this decision.[146] The majority opinion made clear that the recent ruling did not foreclose the Court’s prior interpretations given in United States v. Cruikshank, Presser v. Illinois, and United States v. Miller though these earlier rulings did not limit the right to keep and bear arms solely to militia purposes, but rather limits the type of weapon to which the right applies to those used by the militia (i.e., those in common use for lawful purposes).[146]
Justice Breyer, in his own dissent and speaking only for himself, stated that the entire Court subscribes to the proposition that "the amendment protects an 'individual' right—i.e., one that is separately possessed, and may be separately enforced, by each person on whom it is conferred".[162] Regarding the term "well regulated", the majority opinion said: "The adjective 'well-regulated' implies nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training."[123] The majority opinion quoted Spooner from The Unconstitutionality of Slavery as saying that the right to bear arms was necessary for those who wanted to take a stand against slavery.