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What is the exact definition of "arms" in the Second Amendment?
Guns? Swords? Grenade launchers? It all seems so vague.
9 Answers
- ?Lv 62 weeks agoFavorite Answer
For any constitutional originalist, arms includes everything from mace to an arsenal of nuclear weapons.
- Spock (rhp)Lv 72 weeks ago
it is vague. the Supreme Court has worked on definitions over the decades. note that area of effect weapons [grenades] are NOT included.]
- Anonymous2 weeks ago
What’s the defining of “freedom of the press”? Surely they didn’t mean cable news or online media. So the government should be able to ban them.
- Anonymous2 weeks ago
Muzzle loading flintlocks.
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- Anonymous2 weeks ago
Whatever your arm can use as a defense. Allegory for arm which without you are useless
- ?Lv 72 weeks ago
Weapons you can use to defend yourself against a tyrannical government, which the Founding Fathers were very aware of in their time. (Aim small, miss small)
Rapper Ice-T gets it: Guns prevent tyranny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxBq85WRnQ8&t
Mossberg 8 shot for home defense
- Anonymous2 weeks ago
I have the constitutional right to own a thermonuclear warhead. Don't you dare criticize me or try to take my rights.
- Anonymous2 weeks ago
Clearly, the Founding Fathers were referring to UAVs.