In the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, we take pride in our heritage of self-reliance and respect for constitutional ...

Explore the importance of the Second Amendment in Fresno County and how it shapes our community's values and freedoms.

Part I briefly looks at the text of the Second Amendment, which protects the right to "keep" arms and the right to "bear" arms. Rather than creating a hierarchy, the text protects both rights equally.

As part of the National Constitution Center's 27 Amendments (In 27 Days) project, each day we will look at a constitutional amendment. Today, we look at the Second Amendment, which protects ...

Reporting from Washington — The 2nd Amendment’s “right to keep and bear arms” is proving to be a right to keep a gun at home, but so far not a right to bear a loaded firearm in public. The ...

The 27 words of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are often reduced to shorthand by gun-rights advocates. "A right to keep and bear arms." The National Rifle Association would have you ...

“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.”—The Second Amendment to the US Constitution ...

What is the Second Amendment and why can the 'right to bear arms' cause so much argument and debate? The amendment has become increasingly more controversial since it was adopted in 1791 ...

What today’s Second Amendment activists forget: The right to not bear arms. As militias gather and march, they exercise a super-sized version of a right invented by gun advocates, not the Founders.

When it comes to the “right to bear arms,” which the Second Amendment protects, many people fall into one of two camps. Folks in the first camp views those rights as absolute, or close to it.