Right to Bear Arms and Constitutional Law How the right to bear arms relates to constitutional law. Past Supreme Court Cases, Current Practices, Properties of the issue, and thoroughly argued.
Modern debates about the meaning of the Second Amendment have focused on whether it protects a private right of individuals to keep and bear arms or a right that can be exercised only through militia organizations like the National Guard. Early discussions took the basic meaning of the amendment for granted and focused instead on whether it added anything significant to the original Constitution.
