By Maxim Lott <\/p>\n
FoxNews.com <\/p>\n
Shown, at right, is a screen shot of the Senate web entry on the 2nd Amendment. The controversial passage is highlighted.Reuters\/Senate.gov <\/p>\n
Does the Second Amendment guarantee an individual right to own guns? <\/p>\n
The Supreme Court has ruled that it does. But you might be confused if you visit the official Senate web page on the Constitution, which says only: \"Whether this provision protects the individual's right to own firearms or whether it deals only with the collective right of the people to arm and maintain a militia has long been debated.\" <\/p>\n
That particular wording was posted on the Senate website in 2009, based on archived web pages at The Internet Archive. However, that's one year after the Supreme Court ruled: \"The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense.\" <\/p>\n
Given the court ruling, critics say the Senate site's administrators are just wrong. <\/p>\n
\"After five-and-a-half years of litigation, the Supreme Court unequivocally resolved the long-standing debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment,\" Bob Levy, one of the lawyers who won the 2008 Supreme Court case, told FoxNews.com. <\/p>\n
\"No one on either side of the gun debate -- with the possible exception of those persons who devised the U.S. Senate's official website explaining the Constitution -- doubts that the Supreme Court has affirmed the individual rights view of the Second Amendment,\" he added. <\/p>\n
The issue follows on the heels of a similar Second Amendment controversy, in which a Texas history textbook was found to claim that the Second Amendment means \"the people have the right to keep and bear arms in a state militia.\" <\/p>\n
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