Doug_Nightmare
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"Plain Text"
The Supreme Court's decision invalidating New York's law giving discretion to officials to deny licenses to carry handguns for insufficient...

Fortunately, the plain text analysis is not difficult because the Supreme Court has already defined the key terms of the guarantee that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Here are some of those definitions:
- "The people" facially means "all Americans." District of Columbia v. Heller (2008).
- "Arms" facially means "all instruments that constitute bearable arms."
- "Keep Arms" facially means "have weapons." Heller.
- "Shall not be infringed" facially means that the right conferred by the Second Amendment is an "unqualified command." Bruen.