This is the most common opposition to gun control. The Second Amendment states: “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.” » While it is true that the Second Amendment states the right to bear arms, it was written with the intent of protecting the right of states to maintain militias and giving them the right to bear arms, not the right to bear arms. individuals. This is not an unlimited right to own guns. It does not even give individuals the right to own firearms. Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger said of the proposition that the 2nd Amendment is intended to protect every American's right to own firearms: "...one of the greatest frauds, I repeat the word "fraud", against the American public by special means. interest groups that I have ever seen in my life. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that the armies of the state – the militias – 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 unrestricted right to any type of weapon he or she