Clearly the Founders did not intend for violent criminals to have access to the type of rifles available today.
"Arms" do not include simi or fully automatic rifles.
"Abridged" does not mean you cant shorten or limit, it just means Abridged in the sense of early English standards.
It does not include individual home ownership, but what can be locked in an armory.
I strongly disagree with fellow progressives on this issue.
The Amendment is interpreted as it was meant to be interpreted when written.
The right to own firearms is part and parcel of being an American resident in good standing.
That the Amendment was never re-written to reflect modern firearms and modern times is the issue.
Without any new amendment ratified, SCOTUS can't just guess what the founders would have wanted in these modern times.
That wasn't the founders' job, anyway. That was this generation's job. We have to ratify new language... if we want to.
Constitutional amendments require far, far more consensus to ratify than anything we'll see in our lifetimes in this highly polarized America.
Right now, in fact, America's very survival can't be taken for granted. Americans voted to blow it all up.
In any case, living in America means that each of us has an exponentially higher chance of getting shot to death than anybody anywhere else in the world.
So what?
We still have the best food as far as I can see.
Worry about what you can change, and we're not anywhere close to changing our gun culture.