Oh, it's there. You have chosen to ignore it.
Or, perhaps more likely.....you've chosen to imagine it?
Yes, I think it's obvious that the latter it true. Have you ever actually READ it? Have you ever actually READ any of the SCOTUS decisions that outline the limitations of the 2A?
I doubt it.
Please post the 2A and highlight to part that explicitly prohibits any government regulation of any type of firearm.
After that, I look forward to you explanation of how/why SCOTUS ruled REPEATEDLY (way back in the '30's.....again in the 60's.....and in the 80's....and again in the 90's.....and again as recently as 2008) that it is illegal to carry a machine gun or a sawed off shot gun (for example) and that the 2A does NOT allow of unlimited, unrestricted "rights" to firearms and other weapons.
The Bill of Rights prohibits the government from taking away (or imposing infringements on) 10 unalienable Rights.
....This is silly. But it's often what I see from conservatives and "libertarian" types. You guys don't even know the "facts" you claim as foundational to your ideology.
The Bill of Rights does NOT actually outline "10 unalienable Rights", my friend. Heck the 9th and 10th Amendments don't even mention an "unalienable Right" at all.
So, clearly, you don't actually know what the Bill of Rights actually says.
And again, it has LONG SINCE been understood that the 2A is NOT an unlimited right to bear any/all arms.
The right to keep and bear arms is the second of these enumerated rights.
It explicitly states:
". . .the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Nonsense. You can't take a "strict constructionist" or "literalist" or "minimalist" view of the Constitution....and cherry pick from the script of the 2A.
It ACTUALLY says,
"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."
And, once again, SCOTUS has REPEATEDLY made it clear that the 2A has limits and can be regulated at BOTH the federal and state levels. Machine guns. Sawed off Shotguns. Convicted Criminals. Mentally ill
As a matter of FACT, in the 217 years since the adoption of the Bill of Rights, 2008 marked the FIRST and ONLY time that any SCOTUS decision actually interpreted the 2A to guarantee any INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS to keep and bear arms under the 2A of the Constitution.
And here's the part that people like you don't know about that Heller decision (because you don't READ, you just WATCH FauxNews and consume social media):
- “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.......nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms....We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms....that the sorts of weapons protected (by the Second Amendment) were those ‘in common use at the time.’ We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of ‘dangerous and unusual weapons.....the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes"
And for the record, the above comes from the official Majority Opinion in the 2008 Heller decision.
Those are SCALIA'S WORDS!
Now I say again...please don't try to argue that your warped, personal interpretation of the 2A has EVER been the accepted legal understanding of that constitutional amendment.
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That's funny, given your obvious LACK of knowledge of the subject matter.