The Second Amendedment concernes a well-regulated militia and the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Well I found and article called "Justices Will Weigh Challenges to Gun Laws" by Adam Liptak, published in the New York Times, on October 1, 2009. Where, they said that The Supleme Court will decide whether state and local gun control law may be challenged under The Second Amendment.
The article said that the Supreme Court will evaluate nine more cases about how wide the Second Amendment is, because the amendment protects an individual rights to own firearms rather than a colective right tied to state militias. Which leave an open case for the federal prosecutors about the the constitutionality of an antiterrorism law.
For example, in the Distric of Columbia the law violeted the amendment by barring law-abiding people from keeping guns in their homes for self-defense.
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I personally think that the Second Amendment should be specified. These are different times now and we need to make adjustments to some laws. Guns have been a major problem especially in philadelphia. Currently as it is written, the second amendment is making it harder for state and local law enforcement to stop gun related crime.
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