Reply #106: The Nuclear Bogeyman Argument is the absurdity here. [View All]

[benEzra]

Can I buy a nuke? If the court rules the wrong way on this they are opening the door to absurdity.

The gun debate in 2008 is about whether mentally competent adults with clean records can own non-automatic, non-sound-suppressed civilian (NFA Title 1) small arms subject to the existing barrel length and overall length restrictions of the NFA, and with carry of weapons subject to state licensure. The Nuclear Bogeyman Argument is the absurdity here.

FWIW, the 2nd Amendment refers specifically to "arms," not ordnance; nukes are crew-served ordnance, not arms to be kept and borne by an individual. In context, the amendment has always been understood to refer to small arms.