You are also failing to include all the qualifiers before "shall
not be infringed", but that's a different topic than what
specifically the ATF does to infringe.

It is interesting that the 2nd Amendment is the only one out of the first ten that contains an explanation of why the amendment is there. It was clever and proactive for them to put it there, but unfortunate that they used the word "militia" whose interpretaton has changed a bit over the years.

When that was written, the blood had barely dried from the revolution. Just about the entire Bill of Rights was written in the context of preventing a future government from becoming oppressive in the way the British government had done. To understand any of those amendments you have to think in that context.

Oh, how I wish I owned a back yard where I could do that. Sadly I have to enjoy increasing my lead levels in the company of strangers.

In other news, I guess I won't be buying any new handgun models for a while. It seems the entire industry has decided that these beveled square trigger guards are what's hip now. They're so ugly. This fad can't go out of style soon enough for me.