[skeet]

The 2nd amendment has been in the courts quite a few times and it has always portrayed the 2nd as an individual right per se. The cases that have been heard have always been very specific though. The last big time court hearing on guns etc was Miller in the 30's. The thing that was decided then was that the 2nd did not apply to sawed off shotguns and the court decided that the right to own a sawed off shotgun was not intended by the 2nd Amendment. The Feds then considered the sawed off shotgun to be a banned weapon because of the 33?? gun control act that banned the ownership of machine guns and other such things as sawed off shotguns and hand grenades ...THAT WERE NOT REGISTERED. The government wanted control of arms that had been used by the mobs of those times. Even at that time the ability to buy explosives was not very regulated. Heck until about 1975 you could buy dynamite even in Maryland pretty darn easily. Unhappily the government has really tightened the availability of any kinds of explosives..(check the newest controls on Black powder) So what I needed to blow stumps etc I manufactured myself. Heck years ago my cousin and I even made some crude nitro. Got in REAL trouble when my uncles outhouse(not in use for quite some time) kinda ..sorta..disappeared one hot afternoon. Not a good evening when he got home...bout a 1/2 hour later. I just don't trust the court to vote constitionally!