Reply #40: Personal ownership outside of militias is specified in, I think, 3 state

[RaleighNCDUer]

constitutions that date to the time of the US constitution. The rest ALL tie it to the need for a militia, for the common defense. The most common reference in the various state constitutions is reflected in the wording of the US constitution - which supersedes the various state constitutions. Ever since the constitution was ratified there have been states and counties and municipalities enacting various gun control laws. Some of them changed their laws over time, others enacted new ones, but this is the FIRST time any have been ruled unconstitutional, based on a mis-interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.

As I said above, if you want to have private ownership written into the constitution, it will require an amendment to the @nd - because as written, it doesn't do it.

That is the ONLY way to end this debate.