"2A only protects firearms of founder's era". Cool, machine guns are IN.
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 10:53 am
This is my standard response to any gun-grabber who suggests that the 2nd Amendment doesn't protect modern semiautomatic and fully automatic firearms. I tell them that if they don't like it, they should go argue with the same SCOTUS that upholds their right to kill babies in the womb.Some have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment. We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications, e.g., Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, 849 (1997), and the Fourth Amendment applies to modernforms of search, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27, 35–36 (2001), the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.