Just a silly argument that has been done before. The supreme court says the 2nd amendment is an individual right!
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), was a
landmark decision of the
US Supreme Court ruling that the
Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms, unconnected with service in a militia, for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's
handgun ban and requirement that lawfully owned
rifles and
shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a
trigger lock" violated this guarantee.
[1] It also stated that the right to bear arms is not unlimited and that guns and gun ownership would continue to be regulated. It was the first Supreme Court case to decide whether the
Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense or if the right was intended for state militias.
[2]
Because of the
District of Columbia's status as a federal enclave (it is not in any state), the decision did not address the question of whether the
Second Amendment's protections are
incorporated by the
Due Process Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment against the
states.
[3] This point was addressed two years later by
McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), in which it was found that they are.
On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed by a vote of 5 to 4 the
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in
Heller v. District of Columbia.
[4][5] The Supreme Court
struck down provisions of the
Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 as unconstitutional, determined that handguns are "arms" for the purposes of the Second Amendment, found that the Regulations Act was an unconstitutional ban, and struck down the portion of the Regulations Act that requires all firearms including rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock". Prior to this decision the Firearms Control Regulation Act of 1975 also restricted residents from owning handguns except for those registered prior to 1975.
en.wikipedia.org
