"If the 2nd Amendment didn’t exist, Americans would still have the natural and moral right to keep and bear arms of any kind for any purpose."
— Laurence M. Vance
Most people misconstrue the nature of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment confers no positive right.
The Second Amendment only recognizes an existing right. If the federal government had any authority whatsoever to make any law regarding any weapon, then that authority would have to be spelled out in the Constitution in Article I, section 8. The Second Amendment is merely an additional limitation on federal power to infringe upon gun rights besides the fact that no authority is granted to the federal government in its limited, enumerated powers to infringe upon them in the first place. As part of the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment was designed to protect the rights of Americans from infringement by the new and powerful central government under the Constitution.
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