Keyes: Those with training should be able to own machine guns

Declaring "the front line of the war against terror once againinvolves the citizens," Republican Alan Keyes said Tuesday hebelieves the U.S. Constitution grants properly trained privateindividuals the right to own and carry machine guns.

"You're not talking about giving citizens access to atom bombs andother things," the former presidential candidate said. "That'sridiculous."

But the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate argued the founding fathersintended the Second Amendment to allow people to carry the types ofweapons "customarily carried in those days by ordinary infantrysoldiers."

"And, yes, does that mean that in this day and age people wouldhave the right to have …