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  2. Right to keep and bear arms in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the right to keep and bear arms, whether considered an individual or a collective or a militia right, did not originate fully formed in the Bill of Rights in 1791; rather, the Second Amendment was the codification of the six-centuries-old responsibility to keep and bear arms for king and country that was inherited from the English ...

  3. Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    In footnotes 40 and 41 of the Commentaries, Tucker stated that the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment was not subject to the restrictions that were part of English law: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Amendments to C. U. S. Art. 4, and this without any qualification as to their condition or ...

  4. Right to keep and bear arms - Wikipedia

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    The right to keep and bear arms (often referred to as the right to bear arms) is a legal right for people to possess weapons (arms) for the preservation of life, liberty, and property. [1] The purpose of gun rights is for self-defense , as well as hunting and sporting activities .

  5. Supreme Court revisits the scope of the right to bear arms in ...

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    In its appeal to the Supreme Court, the Biden administration defends the law, arguing that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is “not unlimited” and it does not prohibit Congress from ...

  6. Right to bear arms ingrained in US, state constitutions - AOL

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    Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to assemble and petition the government, the right to gather as a militia and to bear arms uninfringed, freedom from unreasonable searches and ...

  7. Gun law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The right to keep and bear arms in the United States is protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [14] While there have been contentious debates on the nature of this right, there was a lack of clear federal court rulings defining the right until the two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases of District of Columbia v

  8. Overview of gun laws by nation - Wikipedia

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    The right to keep and bear arms has been protected by the Second Amendment to the Constitution since 1791, [233] and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it protects any individual's right to keep and bear arms unconnected with service in a militia for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home and in public, in District ...

  9. Only 3 countries in the world protect the right to bear arms ...

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    Only Mexico, Guatemala, and the US have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The US is the only country without any constitutional limits.