They will proclaim the 2nd Amendment is an individual right, yet it still can be infringed when it is in the state's interest and all laws violating this individual right will still be enforced??????

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Wednesday July 11 2:01 PM ET

                               Justice Department Reverses Gun Rights
                               Position

                               WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reversing a position it adopted nearly 30
                               years ago, the Justice Department (news - web sites) is preparing a
                               formal legal opinion that individuals, not just groups, have a
                               constitutional right to own guns, a view advocated by Attorney General
                               John Ashcroft (news - web sites), department officials said on
                               Wednesday.

                               They said the department's office of legal counsel was drafting the
                               opinion, which would be a shift from the position it took in 1973 under
                               Republican President Richard Nixon that there was no personal
                               constitutional right to own or use a gun.

                               The letter, denounced by gun-control groups, represented a break from
                               the government's prior position that the Second Amendment only
                               conferred a collective right to own guns through militias, and not an
                               individual right.

                               The opinion will incorporate the views Ashcroft first expressed in a letter
                               to the National Rifle Association in May. The officials said Ashcroft, an
                               NRA member, expressed official Justice Department policy in the letter,
                               not his personal views.

                               In another move applauded by the NRA, Ashcroft last month
                               announced plans to slash the amount of time the government can keep
                               records of instant background checks for gun buyers.

                               [b]One official said the Justice Department would continue to defend
                               existing gun laws in court, even after the opinion had been completed.

                               In his letter, Ashcroft said the Second Amendment did not prohibit
                               Congress from enacting laws restricting firearms ownership for
                               ``compelling state interests.''[/b]

(continued)

                               The issue of whether the Second Amendment applies to individuals is
                               before a federal appeals court based in New Orleans, and the case
                               could then be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites).

                               The Second Amendment says, ``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.''

                               Seth Waxman, solicitor general under Democratic President Bill Clinton,
                               said in a letter nearly a year ago that successive Democratic and
                               Republican administrations, the Supreme Court in 1939 and eight U.S.
                               appeals courts had rejected arguments the Second Amendment
                               extended firearms rights to individuals.

Every one of the first ten ammendments apply to individuals, why is the 2nd meant for groups?

Somebody give me some white out and a pen, I'll settle this once and for all!  [smoke]

You are very close to wearing out your welcome.