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Agreed. The wording of the 2nd amendment doesn't lend itself to encryption though which could be an issue.
by zebrafish 9y ago
Agreed. The wording of the 2nd amendment doesn't lend itself to encryption though which could be an issue.
- didgeoridoo 9y agoI hadn't ever really thought of this, but cryptography has sometimes been considered a "military munition" for purposes of restricting export: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th... Is there any existing jurisprudence defending citizen access to cryptography on 2nd Amendment grounds?
- zachrose 9y agoThere's this one xkcd: https://xkcd.com/504/ https://xkcd.com/504/ But no, to my knowledge this legal argument has not been made in court. (Here's a Motherboard article about the possibility: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-second-amendment-case-for-the-right-to-bear-encryption. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-second-amendm...) So far I think it's more interesting to consider as a political argument than a legal one: conservatives who like guns should (IMHO) have every reason to oppose state-weakened cryptography, as much as that might fracture the law-and-order conservatism from libertarian conservatism. (Also, there is no universe where a militia with automatic weapons and tapped email is really going anywhere.)