Quote Originally Posted by Spc. Scott View Post
I was doing a bit of reading on the net and happened across this little bit of info on wearing feathers. It has come up before and I thought this was a bit interesting.

Feathers in the bonnet are traditionally reserved only for clan chiefs, clan chieftains, and armigers. Officially the rule is; a Chief wears three feathers, a chieftain wears two, and an armigerous gentleman (one who personally has a right to heraldic arms) wears one. The wearing of bonnet feathers by those who are not chiefs is generally considered presumptuous in Scotland. However, Americans, who have the right to keep and bear arms guaranteed under the second amendment of our Constitution, could arguably wear one eagle feather in good conscience.

Here is the link to the whole article in case anyone would like to read it over.

I'm very curious to know what all of you might think of this.

edit: I apologize if this has already been covered and I missed it.
Well, the major problem with this is that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution has absolutely nothing to do with heraldic arms, which is what we are talking about here. An armiger is someone who has his own heraldic arms, as the information you quoted correctly states. The Second Amendment is speaking of weapons.

If you are going to try to apply the Second Amendment in this case, you might as well argue that it gives all Americans the right to wear tank top shirts (you know, so we can have "bare arms"). Either way is a gross misreading of the text.