right to keep and bear arms
English
Etymology
From the wording of the second amendment to the US Constitution: " […] the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Pronunciation
- see right, to, keep, and, bear, arms
Noun
right to keep and bear arms
- (chiefly US) The right of individuals to possess firearms and armor.
- 1789, Second Amendment to the United States Constitution:
- A well regulated Militia, being neceſsary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
- 2005, Clinton, Bill, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, OCLC 60594427, page 120:
- President Bush had vetoed an earlier version of the Brady bill because of the intense opposition of the NRA, which said it infringed on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
- 2022 January 20, Thompson, Don, “California’s COVID gun store shutdowns ruled illegal”, in AP News, archived from the original on 20 January 2022:
- Two California counties violated the Constitution’s right to keep and bear arms when they shut down gun and ammunition stores in 2020 as nonessential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. […]
Because buyers can obtain guns only by personally going to gun stores in California, Ventura County’s 48-day closure of gun shops, ammunition shops and firing ranges “wholly prevented law-abiding citizens in the County from realizing their right to keep and bear arms,” he wrote.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:right to keep and bear arms.
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Synonyms
- right to bear arms
Coordinate terms
- freedom of movement, freedom of contract, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly
Translations
the right of individuals to possess weapons and armor
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Further reading
right to keep and bear arms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia