As everyone knows the Second Amendment
is not about guns. The objects of the right it constitutionalizes are
“Arms.” Swords, bayonets, and hatchets, as well as muskets, were
the arms of the Revolutionary War. Current arms of individual use
include body armor, hand grenades and shoulder rockets.
The fact that shoulder rockets are a
tad dangerous and of little socially approved private use surely has
some bearing on their constitutional status. A frank recognition of
this fact will show the supporter of the open carry of large clip
semi-automatics that his mode of constitutional interpretation is
not so different from those who contend that the carry of said
semiautomatic, and perhaps also of a Saturday night special, is
outside constitutional protection.
