Doesn't the constitution give us the right to bear arms on commercial airplanes?

Answer 1

Second Amendment says that the states have the right to have well-organized militias that have the right to bear arms.

"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 people here probably refers to the States and not each individual.

The Supreme Court has never upheld the right for individuals to bear arms. The right to bear arms is something that Congress generally thinks about, and so if they decide to curtail the right to bear arms in various places: airplanes, near schools (U.S. v. Lopez was decided not because of the right to bear arms but because of the interstate commerce clause), in banks, etc. that is their right and Supreme Court probably wouldn't stop them.

At the very least, neither the Supreme Court nor any other government agency has ever supported the absolute right for individual citizens to bear arms.

Answer 2

no- airlines are private enterprise...they can make up their own policy and rules. if you don't like it, go somewhere else.

C.S. : you are wrong- the ''people'' in the 2nd amendment are the same people that are in every other amendment and the body of the Constitution...We the People...as an earlier version of the amendment states: "A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but no person religiously scrupulous shall be compelled to bear arms."


It's the People.

Answer 3

Interesting question. It depends on how you interpret the Constitution. I don’t agree with the NRA-type interpretation of the Second Amendment and I believe that it refers to the necessity for a well-regulated militia. I therefore think that the government has the right to regulate gun possession including, of course, on airlines.

Edit: As for those who are referring to the airlines as private, the federal government regulates firearms on airlines and it is a serious federal violation to bring a firearm onto a plane. It also doesn’t matter that there were no planes in the 18th century. The question deals with the right of the federal government to regulate guns under the terms of the Second Amendment.

Answer 4

No.

Commercial airlines are private property, and they may stipulate the conditions under which you are allowed to board.

Consider the First Amendment analogy...Does the Constitution give us the right to give instructions to passengers on a commercial airplane?

Answer 5

No. And to the person who says 911 wouldn't have happened if we were able to have guns on planes, I would like him to figure out how to make airplanes bulletproof. Because a lot of guns might go off accidentally, and cause many more plane crashes.

Answer 6

The constitution was written about 120 years before airplanes were even invented. So, no. it doesnt.

Answer 7

2nd modification to the U.S. shape: "A nicely regulated protection stress, being needed to the protection of a unfastened state, the magnificent of the folk to maintain and endure hands, shall no longer be infringed."

Answer 8

I am a big proponent of the right to bear arms, but there are certain places one is not allowed to take guns for obvious reasons. Take a bank, for example - they don't want people coming in robbing them. For a plane, it is dangerous to shoot a gun in a plane because they are pressurized - my guess is the officers who carry guns on planes get special training, but since normal people don't get that training, they shouldn't have them on planes.

Answer 9

Well, if you are part of a "Well Formed Militia", (the 2nd amendment), and you are all going to defend us, in a well defined action, and let the Airline, Police, FBI, CIA, NSA, and other approvals...Then I would say.....Maybe...

Answer 10

No, bear arms are reserved strictly for a plaque on the wall. Didn't you see Family Guy?