Nasheandmel Rifle Association Position Paragraph

We don’t apply the second amendment the way we do the first. For example, we would not prevent a felon from starting his own blog, but we do prevent his purchasing a gun. We do limit who can bear arms. This is the purpose of background checks, which almost all agree are good public policy. Among others, the following may have their right to bear arms infringed: permits are

not granted felons or those with mental disease or defect, minors, drug users, even in New Jersey “habitual drunkards.”  The way forward then, we believe, is to follow this line of legal reasoning to its logical conclusion. In whose hands are guns dangerous? May we suggest jackasses, at the least; but, no, let’s be truly reasonable: permits should be denied all sinners.