2nd Amendment: Subsidiary Activity
The Second Amendment, in protecting a right to have guns for self-defense, also protects the “right to acquire weapons for self-defense.”
If “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” is to have any force, the people must have a right to acquire the very firearms they are entitled to keep and to bear...
...there is no “categorical exception from Second Amendment scrutiny for the regulation of gun stores. If such were the case, the [government] could enact a total prohibition on the commercial sale of firearms.
Second Amendment may invalidate ban on opening new gun stores in a California county
9th Circuit opinion on rights of gun stores applies standard, rigorous Second Amendment doctrines