Obama said Wednesday he believes the Second Amendment does guarantee individuals the right to bear arms.
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They believe we have the right to bear arms, and they believe with rights come responsibilities.
Essentially, the second-amendment right to bear arms clashes with employers' rights to keep the workplace safe.
Does the Second Amendment right to bear arms for self-defense extend outside the doorway of our homes?
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These were cases that involved the limits of affirmative action and the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Opponents say expanded checks would violate the Constitution's right to bear arms and would be ignored by criminals.
And does the right to bear arms mean that there are no restrictions?
Opponents of the bill say it would violate Americans' right to bear arms.
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Some have interpreted the Second Amendment's affirmation of the right to bear arms as a barrier to reasonable regulation.
But opponents of the bill have argued it would violate the US Constitution's guarantee of the right to bear arms.
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Obama rejected arguments by opponents of the legislation that the measures would strip Americans of their constitutional right to bear arms.
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Guns and the right to bear arms are part of American culture.
My husband hunts and believes strongly in his right to bear arms.
As far as that's concerned, what I believe is, the Second Amendment gives people an individual right to keep and to bear arms.
There are millions of responsible, law-abiding gun owners in America who cherish their right to bear arms for hunting, or sport, or protection, or collection.
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But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.
The upstate counties passing the nonbinding resolutions say the law infringes on the right to bear arms and threatens to make criminals of law-abiding residents.
They concluded that a secret army claiming the right to bear arms until Ireland was reunited had given up its weapons without securing its goal.
An American's individual right to bear arms may now be secure.
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Unlike abortion, the Constitution actually specifies the right to bear arms.
To non-Americans, oblivious to the constitutional guarantee of the right of the people to keep and bear arms, the connection between guns and tragedy seems obvious.
Proposals for stricter gun laws, in particular, seem likely to fall foul of Americans' constitutional right to bear arms, and the gun lobby's ferocious defence of it.
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But opponents say the measure would violate the Second Amendment, the clause in the US Constitution that refers to the right of citizens "to keep and bear arms".
He insisted that a reasonable ban on semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as strengthening background checks, presented no threat to the constitutional right to bear arms.
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The NRA, which is the public face of the powerful gun lobby, opposes many government limits on gun ownership as a violation of the constitutional right to bear arms.
He argues that background checks don't infringe on the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees the right of citizens to bear arms and is often cited by gun rights defenders.
Supporters of gun control argue that the constitutional right to bear arms can be limited, for example, by the existing ban on private citizens possessing grenade launchers and other military weaponry.
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Avid defenders of the Second Amendment right to bear arms believe that it is precisely because of their desire to protect their own children that they take a strong, pro-gun position.
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch said on Tuesday that he was "a strong supporter of the second amendment" - referring to a clause in the US Constitution on the right to bear arms.
Heller became the plaintiff in the test case, and in 2008 the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, holding that the Second Amendment does confer on individuals the right to bear arms.
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