Quote:
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
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During the term of a Rebulican named Nixon, the courts clarified this to mean the national guard as the modern militia.
Having said that, no one is going to come take your hunting rifle. Probably not your handgun either.
However, as a gun owner myself, I feel a need to point out two things if the Brady Bill is being mentioned.
1) A handgun has
NO other purpose than to kill a fellow human. So by proxy if you purchase a handgun it is implicite that you are purchasing it with the thought that you may one day use it to take the life of a fellow human being.
2) I cannot fathom any reason on the planet that anyone not charged with defending or protecting has any reason to be in possesion of any gun that will fire at full auto. Unless you have some plans for goverment overthrowing or are a paranoid schizo who believes the commies are coming, I cannot see a valid explanation as to why such a weapon is needed.
The 2nd gives you the right to bear arms, nowhere does it say you have a right to every weapon is existance or the most violent ones.