Privacy in Arms Should be a Second Amendment Norm

Use of Artificial Intelligence by Governmental Agencies to Detect Concealed Firearms:

Prohibits governmental agency or specified contractors from using or contracting with any other entities to use artificial intelligence to detect concealed firearms in public places; provides exceptions; provides remedy.

This strategy should be encouraged and incorporated into the Second Amendment. The principle should be:  governments have no legitimate power to track the ownership of weapons by law abiding citizens. 

The concept has been mentioned in dystopian novels about the future. In the Weapon Shops of Isher, Canadian author A.E. Van Vogt explores a future where the power of the Empire of Isher is offset by the ability of law abiding citizens to purchase and own weapons without government sanction. The novel was written as Canadian citizens rejected the attempt by Canada, during WWII, to require registration of all Canadian rifles and shotguns. Van  Vogt states:

“The Right to buy weapons is the right to be free.”

The Castle Keeps by Andrew J. Offutt explores a dystopian future where one of the few things keeping society alive is a ruling by the United States Supreme court that personal privacy protections extend to the ownership of weapons on individual property.

Keeping knowledge of who owns what weaponry private is an important part of personal security.  If an opponent knows what defenses exist, they can plan ways to overpower or evade those defenses.

At least one current federal court case held the federal law making possession of a gun with the serial number removed a crime is unconstitutional. The Fourth Circuit reversed the decision.

Privacy in weaponry, especially in the home, has always been an important part of the Second Amendment. In the United States, we are well on the way to a cultural understanding that privacy in gun ownership is an essential part of ordered liberty.