Dec 15, 2012 6:49 PM
that need expounding upon. First; the justice states that the firearm in question (short barreled shotgun) is not “any part of the ordinary military equipment” and therefore they “cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument.” Therefore, according to the Supreme Court, the only weapons guaranteed by the Second Amendment would be weapons “of the ordinary military equipment or that its use could contribute to the common defense.”