[The Urban Sombrero]

If the SCOTUS were to determine that the 2nd Amendment did not cover sawed-off shotguns, as it once did, or military style "mass kill" weapons, as it might in the future, and if the reason be "promote the general welfare," I am not going to think that the end of "the American experiment" is nigh. Further, I don't think interpreting the 2nd Amendment must be, of necessity, a partisan political act. I think one could contemplate "promoting the general welfare," look at the phrase "well regulated," and conclude the 2nd Amendment did not envision any citizen any gun any time.