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On the recordFebruary 11, 2013
The Supreme Court did not suggest in Heller or McDonald or in any other case that uniquely within the Constitution the Second Amendment protects a certain fixed set of objects.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin argues that the Second Amendment's protections are not fixed and must evolve.

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