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Letter: Reasonable restrictions on firearms are a matter of common sense

Related Topics: Firearm, Common sense, Regulation

“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.”

It has to do with a “well regulated Militia,” which we have come to understand as today’s National Guard. Nowhere does it say that private citizens can have any quantity of any type of firearm they choose.

I support the spirit of the Second Amendment, and the right of every law-abiding adult citizen to own firearms. But that must come with reasonable restrictions.

You must be 21 years of age to purchase, register or own any kind of firearm.