Word.ws English Dictionary

right to bear arms

right to bear arms is the alternative form of right to keep and bear arms.

Meaning of right to keep and bear arms

Noun

right to keep and bear arms

  1. (US) The right of individuals to possess firearms and armor.
    • 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.1789, Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

Questions about right to bear arms

What is right to bear arms the alternative form of?
Right to bear arms is the alternative form of right to keep and bear arms.

Words near right to bear arms in the dictionary

  1. right stochastic matrices
  2. right stochastic matrix
  3. right stuff
  4. right the ship
  5. right to be forgotten
  6. right to bear arms
  7. right to choose
  8. right to die
  9. right to keep and bear arms
  10. right to left
  11. right to life

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: right to bear arms (page history and authors); right to keep and bear arms (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “right to bear arms.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/right_to_bear_arms. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.