However, the New Jersey Constitution, Art. The Second Amendment prevents the government from infringing on one's right to keep and bear arms.The 2nd amendment is a part of federal law, why are individual states allowed their own interpretation and to impose their own restrictions on gun ownership? The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791. In Heller and McDonald, we held that the Second and. Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. The Supreme Court's Bruen ruling, which struck down as unconstitutional a New York law prohibiting individuals from carrying guns in public. Banning any type of firearm can be interpreted as a violation of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. STATE CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION - No Constitutional Provision on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.