in all honesty the 2nd amendment says nothing of having to register guns, go through background checks, be approved by the state as being mentally stable, etc etc. now i personally think it's a good thing that there are certain reasonable requirements (non-felon, mentally sane, etc) but more and more the gov't wants to put restrictions and make you jump through that many more hoops to be able to own a gun. it also doesn't help that the nra is slowly selling away the rights of every individual to be able to own a gun...