Federal legislation to ban TikTok may seem like an infringement of the First Amendment, but there is precedent for such a ban.The Bill of Rights didn’t negate the original part of the Constitution. It includes Article I Section 8, which gives Congress the authority to declare war and to make laws necessary and proper to execute that power.The first regulations on firearms were bans on machine guns. Before 1970, the National Rifle Association accepted what the NRA considered reasonable regulations. After accepting certain restrictions, most notably on shipping, following the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, those who wanted outright bans used those regulations to argue that the Second Amendment was not absolute. The NRA sacked its leadership, repla
