right to bear arms

Let's Update The Second Amendment For Our Post-Musket World

You must be tired after traveling all the way from 1791.
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Machine Guns Aren't Protected By The Second Amendment, Court Rules

Consistent with prior precedent, the court found machine guns to be "dangerous and unusual" weapons.
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Supreme Court Almost Ruled That Stun Guns Are Protected By The Second Amendment

But Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas would've gone further.
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People Have A 'Fundamental Right' To Own Assault Weapons, Court Rules

Certain semiautomatic firearms deserve the highest level of protection the Constitution allows, says appellate court.
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MLK and His Guns

Most people think Martin Luther King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection.
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