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> Hence, to bear a WMD congress could require you to serve one weekend a month, two weeks a year if you get my drift. Yes. But Congress has levied no such req
by lisper 6y ago
> Hence, to bear a WMD congress could require you to serve one weekend a month, two weeks a year if you get my drift.
Yes. But Congress has levied no such requirement. And absent any such requirement I should be able to successfully argue that if my right to bear arms extends to a Glock then there can be no Constitutional basis for arguing that it should not extend to a nuke.
My point is no one even attempts to make that argument because everyone knows it would get shot down on some obscure legal pretext because when push comes to shove no one is really a textualist or an originalist. It's all subtlety and nuance and interpretation and, ultimately, politics, even among people who insist that it is not.
- arcbyte 6y agoThere is 18 U.S. Code § 831,832, but it doesn't outright forbid owning a nuclear weapon. There is also the interesting issue of nonproliferation treaties to consider. Could the US signing an arms agreement impact your second amendment rights - because those treaties would be enforceable against you? If you followed in the footsteps of David Hahn and ilk and avoid the environmental problems that got him in trouble, and built it yourself, you might be able to create and possess one legally. Theres probably some regulations in the CFR to look through too. Some law or regulation has to exist to regulate existing nuclear weapon production in the US.