Chapter 6 Article 2: Congress vs. the States on Guns Chapter six of the textbook, Constitutional Law and the Criminal Justice System by J. Scott Harr, Karen M. Hess, Christine Orthmann, and Jonathon Kingsbury, goes into extensive detail on the seconded amendment of the United States Constitution. To briefly sum up, the seconded amendment states that “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" (Harr, Hess, Orthmann, & Kingsbury, 2015, p. 167). Pursuing this further, there has been a considerable amount of debate throughout the years on what ‘the right to bear Arms’ really implies for American citizens today. Due to the confusion, many states have had to appear in …show more content…
For example, in June of 2016, the Supreme Court attempted to proscribe the sale of having possession of different types of semiautomatic assault rifles and large-capacity magazines in Connecticut and New York (The New York Times, 2016). However, after profuse thought, the Supreme Court decided not to take up charges in those states due to the Seconded Amendment rights (The New York Times, 2016). On an analogous matter, some states have additionally stricter laws when it involves the acquisition of firearms, than other states. That being said, how does one obtain a gun in a state that has these stricter laws? One, for example, according to the article, if a person needs or wants a gun and lives in a state with a lot of scrutinized regulation laws, have the option of driving one state over and purchasing a gun in a state that has laxest gun control laws (The New York Times, 2016). Although, this is one of the more accurate statements mentioned in this article, it unfortunately, neglected to go into thorough