Resolution: The Second Amendment should be interpreted to allow significant government restrictions on firearm ownership and possession.

- The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: 'A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.'
- The Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess firearms unconnected with militia service.
- The Heller decision also stated that this right is not unlimited and does not prohibit all forms of firearm regulation.
- Courts have upheld various restrictions including prohibitions on felons possessing firearms, restrictions on carrying firearms in sensitive places, and conditions on commercial firearm sales.
- Legal scholars and jurists disagree on the scope of permissible government regulation under the Second Amendment.
- The Supreme Court's 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen established a new test requiring gun regulations to be consistent with historical tradition.