James Madison, one of the founding fathers, wrote the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The amendment granted the right for American citizens to keep arms is the right for people to possess arms for their liberties and properties. 

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Based on the 2nd Amendment and federal laws, it did not give the right to people who are not American citizens or permanent residents to keep or buy arms in the United States of America. If an international student, whether legally or illegally owns guns in the United States, he/ she will most likely get deported from the country. In 2015, a Chinese student who violates the firearms law and he "was expelled and deported after bringing two AR-15s onto the Arizona State University campus. Brown described that incident as 'the most serious' in Arizona involving an armed international student." 

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In the case above, it is important for police officers to investigate how and where did that Chinese student get the arms from. Governments and lawmakers who wrote the state constitutions have to rethink whether there are any policies and institutional loopholes that allowed international students to get guns as well. Also, it is more indispensable to inform and share some basic laws with international students in that most of them have lack knowledge of the law systems of the United States.

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