Letter: The Second Amendment doesn’t prohibit regulating bullets — so let’s get to it
(Tom Wharton | Special to The Tribune) Barnes Bullets of Mona, which offers a variety of copper ammunition, displays a few at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 23, 2018.
“A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
The Second Amendment of the Constitution makes no mention of ammunition for said arms. So why not regulate the manufacturing, sale, transport and possession of bullets?
After all, guns don’t kill people — bullets kill people.
Michael Mitchell, Henrieville
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