Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said Sunday that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was wrong to assume that the government had the right to place limits on the Second Amendment. “He was not speaking from a constitutional perspective,” Pratt said.
“The amendment does provide it’s own degree of scrutiny: It says, ‘shall not be infringed,'” Pratt said on “Fox News Sunday” after host Chris Wallace read a quote from a 2008 case in which Scalia wrote that the Second Amendment was not “unlimited.”
“And we know that at least one justice, Mr. Thomas, takes that point of view. This is not something where the government is supposed to be free to tell we the people, the government’s boss, how much — how far we can go with the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is there to constrain the government.”
