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Americans’ Right to Own Firearms

While it allows many controls, the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees to every responsible, law-abiding adult the right to own firearms. To the political philosophers who influenced our Founding Fathers, arms possession by good people was crucial to a healthy society.  Thomas Paine foreshadowed current gun-lobby slogans (e.g., “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws...