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Everytown's Linguistic Gymnastics: 2nd Amendment Doesn't Really Mean 'Bear' Arms

Perspective from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

Everytown's Linguistic Gymnastics: 2nd Amendment Doesn't Really Mean 'Bear' Arms



The following is from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

Everytown for Gun Safety is now claiming the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is a loophole that needs to be fixed. They’re so convinced, they've listed this loophole as a "fact" of the Second Amendment.

It's beyond a misunderstanding of the text of the Second Amendment. It's an attempt at a wholesale revision of it.

The maneuver, however, is hardly surprising. Everytown labeled protestors carrying firearms as "extremists" and say gun owners are using...

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