In part that depends on how broadly you want to construe ‘arms’ to mean weapons generally, and what gets included as a weapon, and not just guns. The argument o

In part that depends on how broadly you want to construe ‘arms’ to mean weapons generally, and what gets included as a weapon, and not just guns. The argument over whether encryption is a ‘munition’ for regulatory purposes has been going on for some decades now. The government clearly recognizes it as a threat. And clearly the control of the flow of information is a key aspect of dictatorial government. Gun fetishists like to go on about the need for the defense against tyranny, but they haven’t been very useful against the kinds of actions governments are likely to actually take, such as passing laws like the Patriot Act.