>I just don't see a clear defense for mass gun ownership without oversight though. Well, there are several federal[0] and many state[1] gun regulations on the

>I just don't see a clear defense for mass gun ownership without oversight though. Well, there are several federal[0] and many state[1] gun regulations on the books, so I don't know where you get the idea that gun ownership has no oversight. Further, in the Heller decision, Scalia writes: >There seems to us no doubt, on the basis of both text and history, that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms.... >Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_United_States [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_...