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69. For someone who's "not interested," you make quite a show

The individual is mentioned nowhere in the amendment; "The People" is always a collective term; contrast to the use of "persons" in the fourth and fifth amendment, the use of "Owner" in the 3rd amendment, and the use of "the accused" in the sixth. Those are individual terms.

You do have a right to individual firearm ownership... However it's not a constitutional right. It's a common law right, same as your right to ownership of any other piece of property. Your legendary "gun grabbers" might be accused of violating your fourth amendment rights, but so long as The People at large can keep and bear arms - and police and military forces count as part of The People for this purpose - the 2nd amendment is not violated.

This is why you don't get to own your own atomic bomb; your property rights can be curtailed for certain items of property. The People however, can and do own several hundred atomic weapons.

And yes, i'm aware that this is a literal reading that generally isn't used in court; I'm also aware that the 14th amendment has been read by hte courts to rule that McDonalds is a person, so let's just say the courts can be factually incorrect