"in other [countries], like Canada, it is merely very, very difficult."<p>This is not true.<p>More difficult than the United States? Yes.<p>"Very, very difficult"? No.<p>There are millions of legally-owned firearms in Canada.<p>"I’m grateful to my colleague Jeffrey Toobin for showing so well that the idea that the Second Amendment assures individual possession of guns, so far from being deeply rooted in American law, is in truth a new and bizarre reading, one that would have shocked even Warren Burger.)"<p>This crosses the borderline between "untrue" and "deliberate lie".<p>At the time the Constitution was adopted, private individuals could, and did, own everything from personal weapons up through artillery pieces and fully-equipped ships of war.