Gun Violence | The Second Amendment Does Not Protect Private Gun Ownership

“[The Second Amendment] has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of frauds, and I repeat the word “fraud” on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.” —Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, appearing on the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, December16, 1991.

In the contentious debate over gun control, opponents of reasonable gun laws regularly argue that even the smallest form of regulation infringes upon Americans’ “Second Amendment right” to own guns. This argument is without legal or...

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