At last week’s Conservative Action Political Conference, the President again committed himself to “defending 2nd Amendment rights.” The President, the NRA, and many members of Congress seem to believe that the Supreme Court is on their side when it comes to enacting gun laws, and the Second Amendment prohibits them from regulating the sale of guns. They are mistaken.
There are reasons to oppose the ban on assault weapons, but one of them should not be that such a ban would be prohibited by the Second Amendment.
