What about private ownership of atomic bombs?

Can I buy n atomic bomb and store it in my basement?

No regulated militia or defense department considers that a regulated ownership of arms, it fails part one.


However, me and a bunch of scientists from Redneck U should be able to acquire a small atomic bomb for a critical particle experiment, underground in an isolated desert. That should be allowed, but the US defense department will check every regulation at each step and charge us a bundle for the service.

Part one of the Second. I lets me collect artillery weapons as part of a regulated club, but my use of them must follow the same strict guidelines the military uses in their gunnery ranges. I have said this repeatedly, antique artillery guns, modern artillery guns can be part of a strictly regulated private organization, for hobby or real use by hired mercenaries. We are going to blow off our cannons, maybe with duds, but we do this on national holidays and even football games. Artillery weapons are manufactured, they start with private ownership.

Part one has everything we need.  The constitution allows federal regulation but that is restricted by illegal takings. Thus, prt two is complete horse manure, put here because of the stupids in rural American during the founding. But it was moot then, an is moot now. Supremes who try and interpret part two will be stuck making value judgements based on current cultural norms. Sorry, but like many things in the constitution, it was written to get the dummies off the founders backs..