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Originally Posted by CitaDeL
Gun rights have ALWAYS been civil rights... they are listed in the Bill of Rights.
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Yes and no. The catch is that the *second amendment* has always been in the BOR, but the *interpretation* of the second amendment was settled only recently.
If the court ruled that 2A is about state militias and that there is no individual right, what we here call "gun rights" would be out of scope of 2A and therefore not a civil right.
This might look like details, but it's actually very crucial. Now, we can claim that "gun rights = civil rights" and have a Supreme Court ruling to prove it. Anyone going into argument of "but, but, militia, well regulated, but, but" can be smacked down with a simple "the Supreme Court says otherwise."