Barrett on the Second Amendment In her dissent on the 2019 case Kanter v. Barr, Barrett asserted that the Second Amendment “confers an individual right, intimately connected with the natural right of self-defense.” She argued that possessing a gun was an individual right, not simply a civic right, and a non-violent convicted felon should have the right to own a firearm. Barrett wrote: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/26/donald-trump-nominates-amy-coney-barrett-to-the-supreme-court/