Swallowing Burger

By Greg Camp

Fayetteville, AR –-(Ammoland.com)- There is a meme floating around social media that quotes Warren Burger, former chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, saying:

“The Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies—the militia—would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.”

Advocates of gun control love that quotation. It fits in like a trading card to their deck of authorities who support their position that there is no basic right to own and carry firearms.

If Burger were available to interview today, I’d ask him what the Constitution means when it uses the phrase, the people, but as …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand