[W:1311]The Second Amendment - A Military Right to Bear Arms

Media_Truth said:

You'll get more than you bargain for, with the the recent SCOTUS decisions. Heller and the Chicago decision. I'm actually glad these happened, because it's going to backfire on the NRA and their Libertarian lawyers. Look at this 1999 article. Expect a return to this reality, except about tenfold. What goes around, comes around.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2nd-amendment-reality-check/

There is one rather important group that has never said the Second Amendment protects the right to own a gun: the U.S. Supreme Court.

In fact, the Supreme Court is so convinced that there is no such right, the Court hasn't heard a Second Amendment case since 1939, reports CBS News Correspondent Eric Engberg. Back then, when the justices looked at the framers' words, it ruled repeatedly that it was militias - National Guards - that have a right to arms. Individuals do not.
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Records from the time show just how few guns there were. A census by Massachusetts in 1789 found less than six percent of the people owned a gun. In 1810 the first U.S. census found 4.3 percent of the public had a firearm.
Those guns that did exist were strictly regulated before and after the Second Amendment was passed by all 13 states.

Among those barred from owning a gun were slaves, free blacks, property-less whites, Catholics and other non-Protestants.

"There wasn't a notion of a right to own guns in the way we think of rights today," Bogus said.

History molds today's debates about guns -- a history filtered by myth as much as fact.

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