Freedom of the press does not protect libel. Freedom of speech does not guard child pornography. Freedom of religion does not allow human sacrifice.
And “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” does not include an individual license to nuclear warheads, nerve gas, shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles or, by long-standing and often upheld law, machine guns.
Thus the gun-rights absolutists in Utah and elsewhere are up in the night when they object to the recent decision by the Trump administration to ban the device known as a “bump stock.”
Said doohickey is something that can be attached to a legal semi-automatic weapon and cause it to fire more rapidly, simulating the speed at which prohibited automatic weapons can spew bullets over a larger area.