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The RIGHT to keep and BEAR arms implies that said arms be fully functional. Ammunition is an integral part of that. Just as powder and ball was in the 1700s. Firearms are useless without ammo. Please. Common sense indeed!
If the military has 30 round magazines, so do we the People. If the military uses the 5.56 , we have access to the same. Or, any other small arms cartridge that is in service. The same applies to types of standard service weapons, albeit civilians are limited to semi auto only, and I , personally, find that acceptable. I am an AIMED fire advocate, the military is an AREA fire group. With the same amount of ammo, aimed fire has twice or more hits, from RIFLEMEN, as spray and pray.
The Second Amendment is exactly what it says, with no gray areas for the anti-gun crowd to find excuses to bannish it from our constitution - The Right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, plain and simple.
Here's one perfect example why law-abiding citizens should be allowed to carry arms, it's news you won't hear on the biased mainstream media, but it happens numerous times throughout the United States, everyday.
Since the Founders were smarter than todays leftists, I believe they understood it to be self evident that without ammo, a gun was useless, and therefore, the Second Amendment includes the right to purchase ammo. If there were no right to ammo, the Second Amendment would be vitiated.
Hate to break it to you, but "firearm" is not in the constitution.
The arms that were in common use for protection during the time the Bill of Rights was drafted, and the arms used to win our independence, were "firearms," a.k.a. "guns." — But nice try.
So the new question at hand is does the 2nd amendment also protect ammunition purchases... Seems the left (democrat gun grabbers) have maybe found a loophole to this whole trying to ban guns thing by doing something new in CT... blocking / heavily regulating ammunition purchases (Ammunition for handguns and rifles/shotguns/long arms) by requiring certificates of approval from the state.. Who'd have thought?
Since banning ammo undermines the intent and renders the second amendment utterly useless, I would say yes, ammo is also protected.
Personaly, I think the NICS check on gun purcheses should be lifted from gun sales, and applied to ammunition sales.
The right to arms is not a gift from the framers that they gave to us and that is limited to just what they were familiar with and aware of . . . The right to arms is a retained right, a timeless liberty interest completely held out from the grant of power that "We the People" conferred to the framers, empowering the government, allowing it to exist and function.
The foundation for your statement is perfectly backwards. the government doesn't get to lock the people into a time warp, freezing the activity that government will allow . . . It is government's ability to act that is frozen in time and manner and place by the simple structure of the Constitution. The rights of the people can expand; the powers of government are static unless We the People decide to grant it more power by amending the Constitution.
Much, much more painful than your sarcastic tone is the profound ignorance of fundamental constitutional principles you suffer from.
I don't believe the law bans all ammunition, just high capacity clips.
the highest capacity CLIP I have ever seen before hold 10 rounds of ammo.
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Seems the left (democrat gun grabbers) have maybe found a loophole to this whole trying to ban guns thing by doing something new in CT... blocking / heavily regulating ammunition purchases (Ammunition for handguns and rifles/shotguns/long arms) by requiring certificates of approval from the state.. Who'd have thought? 
