strategic weapons are barred from private ownership always been that way.
But why not? I want my weapons grade anthrax, dammit!
That's not my primary argument. My primary argument is that the federal government was never given any power to even compose a thought about the personal arms of the private citizen.
Yes, that's a pretty crazy argument.
That fact disallows any grading of "reasons" for securing the right to arms; you have no justification for assigning any degrees of importance for the many reasons why the right to arms is excepted out of the powers granted to government. Put simply, government has no legitimate reason to qualify reasons.
Sure they do. Public safety, for instance. We shouldn't have to wait for this guy