Originally Posted By: ARCOREYOriginally Posted By: OiltowncallerYou have a right to bare arms. Does it specify which arms you can own or how many the mag can hold? Or is owning such arms just a privalage and not a right? Privalages can be taken away it is not a right. I have no fight in this so I am not taking there side by any means. If I could hunt with a handgun here I def would but I dont have that option. Good luck guys you def have a battle coming
Our bill of rights only limitation is that our rights shall not infringe upon others. If I have the money to afford it and wish to shoot a Browning 1919 machine gun, then under legal ownership, that right shall not be infringed so long as it is done safely. Our first amendment allows for the freedom of speech. That is not limited to certain agendas, religions, or what a certain group says I should be allowed to say. Your ancestors chose your destiny and it is hard for you to take back that ground after all this time. My ancestors fought for these great freedoms I enjoy now, and I intend to do the same for myself and following generations. After all, the only blood shed by my AR has been varmints like groundhogs and coyotes. My hunting rifles may someday be required to defend my freedoms as did my ancestors Kentucky squirrel rifles. The same ones the King didn't want them to have.
And, I might add, while the anti-gun crowd will argue that the founding fathers had no idea that we would one day have assault rifles available to us, and that the second amendment is outdated because the AR didn't exist in 1776, they typically do so exercising their first amendment rights via a computer, iPad, or cell phone on the Internet... Which I'm sure the founding fathers envisioned someday happening when they wrote the first amendment.