Slate argues that Trump\u2019s Justice Department has taken Second Amendment logic to a wild extreme by refusing to say where the line is on what weapons civilians might constitutionally own \u2014 even leaving the door open, in theory, to nuclear weapons if they ever became \u201ccommon use.\u201d The piece says that position flows from the Supreme Court\u2019s recent gun rulings, which shifted the Second Amendment toward an expansive individual-rights framework centered on self-defense.\n\nThe article pushes back hard, saying real self-defense law already includes clear limits like imminence, proportionality, and retreat, and that those principles are exactly why assault weapon bans and training requirements can be constitutional. Its bottom line: the DOJ\u2019s reading ignores the basic idea that the Second Amendment protects lawful self-defense, not an unrestricted right to any weapon imaginable.