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Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia
Born: Mar 11, 1936

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