Thread by @KevinMKruse

The promotion of these far-right gun proposals as “constitutional carry” is really bizarre, given how earlier generations of conservatives had a *very* different understanding of the 2nd Amendment.

https://twitter.com/drschwertner/status/1386814338837762050

Here’s Chief Justice Warren Burger, a Nixon appointee, talking about how the NRA had committed the greatest “fraud” by spinning the 2A into much more than it was.

Here's Ronald Reagan in 1991, that same year:

Here's Barry Goldwater two years before that:

washingtonpost.com/archive/lifest…

Now, that was the late 80s and early 90s.

We can only imagine what Goldwater, Reagan and Burger would make of today's era, in which we have an epidemic of mass shootings and yet even looser gun laws.