The original text of the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

The Second Amendment, most often ... States. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for lawful purposes, subject to constitutionally permissible regulations....

1 week ago - The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791, along with nine other articles of the United States Bill of Rights. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court affirmed that ...

The Second Amendment was created by our Founding Fathers with the intent of Americans having the right to bear arms and it would not be infringed upon.

Amdt2.1Overview of Second Amendment, Right to Bear Arms

The Second Amendment is naturally divided into two parts: its prefatory clause (“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State”) and its operative clause (“the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall ...

December 9, 2023 - In that sense, it is clear that a major goal of the Amendment was to secure the collective power of the states to raise and use arms, should their citizens consider it necessary. At the same time, Americans took the individual possession of firearms for granted. Many of the legislators who wrote the Second Amendment owned guns, and undoubtedly assumed that their ownership was part of their rights to property and self-defense.

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.

1 week ago - Second Amendment, amendment to ... the Bill of Rights, that provided a constitutional check on congressional power under Article I Section 8 to organize, arm, and discipline the federal militia....

The text of the Second Amendment, as ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, then-Secretary of State, reads: “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.” Gun control ...

June 4, 2026 - The 2nd, 4th, and 14th Amendments, ... Amendment Rights” secure the natural firearm rights of law-abiding American citizens and ensure that such rights to keep and bear arms will not be infringed....

In the 2008 case District of Columbia ... protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home....

The Second Amendment permits sensible gun laws. Our analysis pushes back on absolutist characterizations of the amendment.

While states in the Founding era regulated guns—blacks were often prohibited from possessing firearms and militia weapons were frequently registered on government rolls—gun laws today are more extensive and controversial. Another important legal development was the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Second Amendment originally applied only to the federal government, leaving the states to regulate weapons as they saw fit.

June 25, 2022 - From its founding, our nation has recognized how a free people must not be deprived of means of protection and self-defense. In 1791, the Founders enshrined the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, declaring the right to bear arms “shall not be infringed.”

The additional notion that the American public would out-arm the nation’s military by a massive margin also helped ease the Anti-Federalists’ concerns. With the Second Amendment being inducted into the Constitution, the mutual agreement was that regardless of the federal government’s military authority, the average citizen would still have the natural-born right to possess and keep their own weapons.

July 30, 2026 - For more than 200 years, sportsmen, hunters, and lawful gun owners have embraced our Second Amendment rights, which we all share as Americans. When the Founding Fathers were writing the Bill of Rights, they specifically included the Second Amendment to ensure that every American had “the right… to keep and bear Arms.” They went on to affirm that this right “shall not be infringed.”

Constitution reads: "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." Over the years, this amendment has brought much discussion, but it has remained ...

Historical surveys of the Second Amendment often trace its roots, at least in part, through the English Bill of Rights of 1689,1Footnote See William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States of America 126 (1829) (In England, a country which boasts so much of its freedom, the right was secured to protestant subjects only, on the revolution of 1688; and it is cautiously described to be that of bearing arms for their defence, ‘suitable to their conditions, and as allowed by law.’).

See infra Amdt14.1 Overview of Fourteenth Amendment, Equal Protection and Rights of Citizens. Jump to essay-2United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174, 178 (1939) (explaining that the Second Amendment was enacted [w]ith obvious purpose to assure the continuation and render possible the effectiveness of [militia] forces and must be interpreted and applied with that end in view).