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In the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.

We, as American Muslims, believe that the crisis of gun violence in our country must be addressed with an understanding that God-given rights cannot override God-given communal obligations.

It is a fundamental task of government to balance individual liberty and the common good, and nowhere is this more urgent than with respect to the Second Amendment. Individual security must not compromise Public Safety.

We support the individual right to possess a firearm for self-defense, chiefly in the home, and for other lawful purposes (District of Columbia v Heller, 2008). We do so with some reservation, as we are mindful that the presence of a gun in a home increases the likelihood of an accidental death, suicide, and the worst domestic violence in that home.

We believe the core right of the Second Amendment to possess a firearm for self-defense is not significantly burdened by universal background checks including mental health history, training in firearms handling and in laws regarding the use of force, safe-storage laws, establishing a minimum age of 21 for purchasing a gun, banning ghost guns, and repealing the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which largely shields gun manufacturers and retailers from civil liability, and disincentivizes best practices.

We do not believe that the right to possess a firearm for self-defense logically includes the public carry of weapons. We believe the conditions and standards for public carry should be left to state and local governments: there is no national “one size fits all”. But we do not support “permitless carry”, as is now the law in 27 states.

Given the frequency of mass shootings, we believe the Nation has a compelling interest not only in keeping dangerous individuals from acquiring guns, but also in making particularly dangerous weapons scarce, even those in common use today. A dangerous weapon is all the more so if it is common and widely accessible.

We support a permanent national ban on assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices, as defined by S.25, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 (see: S.25 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Assault Weapons Ban of 2023 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress). We believe this would not burden the right of self-defense, since there are guns more suitable for self-defense which risk less collateral damage if used.

Muslims want for others what they want for themselves, and God loves those who restrain themselves. As the Tennessee Supreme Court declared in 1871: “Admitting the right of self-defense in its broadest sense, still on sound principle every good citizen is bound to yield his [or her] preference as to the means to be used, to the demands of the public good…(Andrews v. State).