Repeal the Second Amendment

Published: March 28, 2018, 11 a.m.

b'In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a \\u201cwell regulated militia.\\u201dDuring the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge, federal or state, as far as I am aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment.\\n\\n\\xa0Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the N.R.A. as perpetrating \\u201cone of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.\\u201dIn 2008, the Supreme Court overturned Chief Justice Burger\\u2019s and others\\u2019 long-settled understanding of the Second Amendment\\u2019s limited reach by ruling, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that there was an individual right to bear arms. I was among the four dissenters. John Paul Stevens'