2nd Amendment change question

[ATAShooter]

Just out of curiosity..... With the way some folks are panic buying ammo, That they could possibly do some sort of ammo ban or such, what is your opinion... Should the 2nd be updated to read-

" The right of the people to keep and bear Arms and Ammunition"

Just was interested in hearing your thoughts.... As far as I know, there is no specific law to prevent the ban of ammo, is it ??

 

[Blackbeard]

Guns are not arms unless they're loaded.

 

[General Geoff]

Agreed. ^^


Firearms are paperweights without ammo to go with them. As such the amendment would serve no purpose unless ammunition was covered as well.

 

[mljdeckard]

To say otherwise is to say that you have the right to a free press but no paper.

 

[Duke of Doubt]

It's implicit. But perhaps a court will have occasion to visit this issue.

Doesn't mean it can't be regulated, though. Plenty of restrictions on speech and free press exist despite the First Amendment. During World War II paper was rationed. If the government didn't want you to publish your book or newspaper, you didn't get any paper. Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" was published in 1943 only because she found a publisher -- Blakiston Press -- from whom Bobbs-Merrill could get paper; Blakiston had won a huge government contract to print technical manuals which weren't needed. Without that series of events, The Fountainhead successfully would have been suppressed by the Roosevelt administration, as Ickes, Laski and company desperately sought to do.

 

[Lightninstrike]

^^

Or TV or Internet or radio........

 

[ATAShooter]

The reason I ask... Is we all know how Congress likes to be all legal beagle, and go by dictionaries sometimes ( get all technical and all ). When you look up "Arm or Arms" it states a firearm, it doesnt stipulate loaded nor unloaded. As for me, I figure the 2nd covers it just in common sense, Just like the newspaper with no paper comment, but we know how folks on Capitol hill and the courts are... So thats why I asked. Figured I'd throw that out there and see how bad I get kicked in the nvts...

 

[LaBulldog]

If we are going to reword the Second Amendment, then how about this.

"Congress shall make no law infringing on right of the people to own, keep and bear arms."

OR

"The right of the people to own, keep and bear arms shall not be violated."

 

[Blackbeard]

It'd be like having the right to bows but not arrows. I'd like to see them try to make that argument, especially in the light of Heller.

 

[Colonel]

What good are arms without ammunition? Kinda defeats the purpose.

I don't think even the most creative revisionist of history could argue otherwise.

 

[shield20]

"It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end." --Thomas Jefferson

"The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless." --Thomas Jefferson