united-states second-amendment
Is there a right to keep and bear ammunition?
<p>The Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear <em>arms</em>. Does this include ammunition?</p>

<p>This is not definitively decided. A number of states forbid large capacity ammunition magazines, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_California_Proposition_63" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the law in California</a> was overturned as unconstitutional. In one challenge, a federal judge ruled that the law violated the second amendment and the 3-judge panel upheld that decision, but the <a href="https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2021/11/30/19-55376.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">full court overturned</a> the decision, so it is not a violation of the 2nd amendment, in the 9th Circuit. New Jersey has a similar law, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1507/188524/20210825131114398_2021.08.25%20ANJRPC%20Cert%20Reply%20FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">which has been challenged</a> at the level of the Supreme Court. We don't know for sure, at this point.</p>

<p>The right to bear arms wouldn't even make sense without the right to also possess ammunition, so any conscionable interpretation of 2A must include both.</p>
<p>As evidence, consider that if it were constitutional to ban all ammunition, a bunch of jurisdictions would already have done so. But even the most draconian of laws don't go that far.</p>
