Reply #48: I have never claimed no individual right exists. I am as stuck with the 2nd Amendment as everyone [View All]

[villager]

...else.

I don't think that means unfettered access to any type of weapon, ammunition payload, etc., for any type of citizen, at any time, in any circumstance.

And I think, as with driving laws, different communities will have different needs to regulate these tools of death (for indeed, that is their purpose, even if one just target practices -- that's not what they're designed/created for).

Here's part of the dissent on Heller, which you keep (deliberately?) getting wrong:

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The majority’s conclusion is wrong for two independent reasons. The first reason is that set forth by Justice Stevens—namely, that the Second Amendment protects militia-related, not self-defense-related, interests. These two interests are sometimes intertwined. To assure 18th-century citizens that they could keep arms for militia purposes would necessarily have allowed them to keep arms that they could have used for self-defense as well. But self-defense alone, detached from any militia-related objective, is not the Amendment’s concern.


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http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZD1.html