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srothstein wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:22 pm As much as I do not care for this interpretation, it is correct in my opinion. It is a long held understanding in our court system that the rights in the constitution are applicable to everyone unless specified otherwise. This is correct, IMO, based on the theory that all of our rights are granted to us by our creator and the constitution protects these rights, not granted by it. The creator did not give them to US citizens, he gave them to everyone. The constitution restricts the government from infringing on these rights, so the illegal immigrants get them too. There are court cases going on whether convicted felons have these rights when they are not imprisoned, and my personal belief is that they do. One of Hunter Biden's defenses is that the law saying drug users cannot have a gun is an unconstitutional restriction since it was not made when the Second was written. So, this would be a correct interpretation and enhance OUR gun rights in the US.

I will point out that the one right that does not apply to illegal (or other) aliens is the right to vote. The constitution specifically restricts that right to citizens.

First-generation rights, often called "blue" rights,[citation needed] deal essentially with liberty and participation in political life. They are fundamentally civil and political in nature, as well as strongly individualistic: They serve negatively to protect the individual from excesses of the state. First-generation rights include, among other things, freedom of speech, the right to a fair trial, (in some countries) the right to keep and bear arms, freedom of religion, freedom from discrimination, and voting rights. They were pioneered in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century during the Age of Enlightenment. Political theories associated with the English, American, and French revolutions were codified in the English Bill of Rights in 1689 (a restatement of Rights of Englishmen, some dating back to Magna Carta in 1215) and more fully in the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789 and the United States Bill of Rights in 1791.[21][22]

C-dub wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:10 pm

(NewsNation) — A federal judge in Illinois earlier this month ruled that a Mexican man who was living in the U.S. illegally had a constitutional right to own a firearm for self-defense.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/on-balanc ... %2Ddefense.

philip964 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:55 am Thought a judge said it was legal for foreigners to possess guns in the US.

Seems a way to be taken over by a foreign government, but I’m just a guy who stayed at a Holiday Inn once.

Belt fed? Gun stores sell those?

ATF sent an alert in October to licensed gun stores in Dallas and other parts of the state, advising them of attempts by Mexican cartels to acquire assault rifles. The warning said the cartels wanted high-powered weapons like .50 caliber and “belt-fed rifles” and that the criminal organizations were “gearing up” for something, according to gun dealer websites.

Jeffrey C. Boshek II, special agent in charge of ATF’s Dallas division, said it’s rare for his agency to send such a warning, but it was necessary due to recent intelligence.