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What is the Second Amendment of the US Constitution?

Second Amendment of the US Constitution -- Bearing Arms. 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.

Does the Second Amendment apply means-end scrutiny?

But Hellerand McDonalddo not support applying means- end scrutiny in the Second Amendment context. Instead, the government must affirmatively prove that its firearms regulation is part of the historical tradition that delimits the outer bounds of the right to keep and bear arms.

What is the operative clause of the Second Amendment?

As we explained in Heller, the “textual ele- ments” of the Second Amendment’s operative clause— “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be in- fringed”—“guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.” 554 U. S., at 592.

How did Parliament respond to the Second Amendment?

Just three years later, Parliament responded by writing the “predecessor to our Second Amendment” into the 1689 English Bill of Rights, Heller, 554 U. S., at 593, guarantee ing that “Protestants . . . may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions, and as allowed by Law,” 1 Wm. & Mary c. 2, §7, in 3 Eng. Stat. at Large 417 (1689). Alt