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To find out what the Founding generation said about "well-regulated militias" and the right to bear arms, we consulted all the colonial and state constitutions enacted before 1791.
Many current interpretations of the Second Amendment largely ignore the first half of its short text, "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 men who wrote the Constitution, unlike toda
After Fort Sumter fell, a secessionist mob in Baltimore rioted and blocked the passage of Federal troops to Washington, D.C
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