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...then it really is quite relevant whether or not owning weapons really is an individual right. If it's not a right that individuals have, there's no right to restrict, meaning it's a matter wholly subject to government at any level. Effectively, if it's not an individual right, it means you're subject to the most limiting of federal, state, or local law, whatever that may be- effectively, this becomes a legislative matter if the court finds that the 2nd doesn't recognize an individual right to bear arms.
If it is an individual right, (and the tenor of the discussion suggests it may go that way) I think you're right- the question will become a matter of just how much this right can be (as with free speech) constrained.
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if the central question is really to what extent the right to own weapons can be restricted... New 
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