"We saw this in the recent Supreme Court decision . They chose to focus a lot on the role handguns could play in defending house and home against criminals , but seemed to have no problem with a ban on machine guns- the kind of guns that would logically seem to be most protected by the Second Amendment because of their usefulness in military conflicts which would make them a better deterrent against tyranny than other types of firearms . Thus , the Supreme Court chose to `` strain at a gnat and swallow a camel `` to use a Biblical idiom in their treatment of the Second Amendment ."
"Now you 're playing word games to confuse people . Page 11 of the Heller ruling stated that the definition of `` arms `` include all modern forms of bearable arms that 're in common use . They did n't rule on machineguns because they were n't part of the case ."
"seemed to have no problem with a ban on machine guns"
"They did n't rule on machineguns because they were n't part of the case ."