Individual gun politics are generally a complex relation of an individual or private family's rights, responsibilities and restrictions within the overlapping domains of their nation, internal state and local community, plus international considerations. Individual gun politics are often philosophically contrasted with group or collective rights (see next). In a 2004 Memorandum, it was an opinion stated by the US Attorney General, "The Second Amendment secures a right of individuals generally, not a right of States or a right restricted to persons serving in militia." Individual gun politics are not limited to laws alone, but also extends to practices and customs, ethics, philosophies, and personal expressions. Individuals may have their own widely diverging, personal, and sometimes contentious political thoughts on guns.
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