Second Amendment

Second Amendment

1. The amendment to the constitution of the United States pertaining to the right to keep and bear arms.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) 2A

   • 2011 [1980 February 19], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 402–403:

     Chip called from New Hampshire to tell me about Jack's representing me at the National Rifle Association meeting. Jack not only told them I was a hunter all my life and a good shot, but also said in a loud voice, "My daddy will approve anything you want to do in the woods." […]
     The key words were "in the woods." The NRA, basing its argument on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution regarding the right to bear arms, has acquired tremendous influence within the U.S. Congress and among state and local governments.

   • 2022 January 20, Don Thompson, “California’s COVID gun store shutdowns ruled illegal”, in AP News‎^[2], archived from the original on 20 January 2022:

     The Second Amendment “means nothing if the government can prohibit all persons from acquiring any firearm or ammunition,” Judge Lawrence VanDyke wrote. “But that’s what happened in this case.” […]
     Firearms Policy Coalition vice president of programs Adam Kraut said in a statement that the cases resulted “when authoritarian governments used COVID as an excuse to attack Second Amendment rights.”
     The 9th Circuit opinions “confirm our claims that the COVID closures of gun stores and firing ranges violated the Second Amendment rights of Californians,” he said.

   • 2023 November 6, Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court’s Devotion to Gun Rights Faces a Challenging Test”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 November 2023, Politics‎^[4]:

     The big gun rights case the Supreme Court is set to hear on Tuesday presents the justices with a tricky problem.
     They must start to clear up the confusion they created last year in a landmark decision that revolutionized Second Amendment law by saying that long-ago historical practices are all that matter in assessing challenges to gun laws. That standard has left lower courts in turmoil as they struggle to hunt down references to obscure or since-forgotten regulations.

   • 2025 September 13, Edward Luce, quoting Charlie Kirk, “A descent into mutual loathing”, in FT Weekend, page 7:

     I think it's worth to have the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Second Amendment.

• “Second Amendment”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Second Amendment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Category:Second Amendment to the United States Constitution on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons