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  "Protecting our right to keep and bear arms."
The right to keep and bear arms is one of those unalienable rights; one that our government has no authority to infringe or take away.
Bill of Rights - The Bill of Rights was agreed to and implemented in response to the complaints of opponents of the new Constitution, since they viewed it as granting too much power to the federal government.
Why the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is Important to You - A powerful article that provides important historical confirmation on our individual right to keep and bear arms, while making it clear this right is just as essential today as it has ever been.
www.tennesseefirearms.com   (1492 words)

  
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The Fourteenth Amendment and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: The Intent of the Framers, by Stephen P. Halbrook, PH.
Under the Assize of Arms of 1181, "the whole community of freemen" between the ages of 15 and 40 were required by law to possess certain arms, which were arranged in proportion to their possessions.
The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms therefore, is a right of the individual citizen to privately possess and carry in a peaceful manner firearms and similar arms.
www.constitution.org /mil/rkba1982.txt   (10216 words)

  
 The Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms--Conservative Debate Handbook
The right to keep & bear arms, inherent to the human condition--hence unalienable--founded on the same philosophic moral basis (individual responsibility) as free enterprise and freedom of conscience.
As a final witness that the Fathers' linkage of regulation of the militia with an acknowledgment of the people's right to keep and bear arms, was never intended as a limitation on the latter but rather as a prodding for the former, we cite George Washington.
The right to keep and bear is inherent to the human situation.
pages.prodigy.net /krtq73aa/arms.htm   (4892 words)

  
 THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Right To Keep and Bear Arms: The
The right to bear arms is a tradition with deep roots in American society.
The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms therefore, is a right of the individual citizen to privately posses and carry in a peaceful manner firearms and similar arms.
www.guncite.com /journals/senrpt/senrpt.html   (11016 words)

  
 The Right To Keep and Bear Arms by Jacob G. Hornberger
Because the murderer and rapist do not know in advance who is armed and who isn’t, which means that they have to be cautious about trying to commit their crimes.
But if everyone has the right to be armed, the murderer and rapist know that there is a good chance that they could guess wrong – that the person whom they’ve chosen to murder or rape might fire first with the weapon in his possession.
Keep in mind the entire philosophy that underlies both the Constitution and Bill of Rights – that the biggest threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people lies with their own federal officials.
www.lewrockwell.com /hornberger/hornberger11.html   (1637 words)

  
 LII: 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 right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
www.law.cornell.edu /constitution/constitution.billofrights.html   (273 words)

  
 Project 21 New Visions: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
That armed rebellion resulted in our independence, and it wouldn't have been possible if the colonists allowed their guns to be confiscated.
By coincidence, however, Taney affirmed the wide belief in the Second Amendment individual right to keep and bear arms for (at the time, white) citizens.
The right to keep and bear arms is not a "color" issue, except when our culture can be manipulated.
www.nationalcenter.org /P21NVDimeryGuns1003.html   (665 words)

  
 The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
When they sought to record forever a guarantee of their rights, they devoted one full amendment out of ten to nothing but the protection of their right to keep and bear arms against governmental interference.
Following the Bill of Rights, Parliament reenacted that statute, leaving its operative parts unchanged with one exception--which removed the word "guns" from the list of items forbidden to the poorer citizens [25] The right to keep and bear arms would henceforth belong to all English subjects, rich and poor alike.
On the other hand, a similar measure was sustained in Indiana, not upon the grounds that a right to keep and bear arms did not apply, but rather upon the notion that a statute banning only concealed carrying still permitted the carrying of arms and merely regulated on possible way of carrying them.
www.barefootsworld.net /senate82.html   (6925 words)

  
 The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Much of today's debate regarding the individual's right to keep and bear arms, has been shrouded by misapplying various interpretations of the militia clause of the second amendment to the US Constitution.
That the right to resist an unjust government with arms was little different than protecting one's self from an individual's aggression.
The well-regulated clause of the second amendment suggests that the citizen soldier must retain not only the right to keep and bear arms, but must be proficient in their use.
www.firearmsandliberty.com /militia_.htm   (2842 words)

  
 The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Commentaries on the Constitution" considered the right to keep and bear arms as "the palladium of the liberties of the republic", which deterred tyranny and enabled the citizenry at large to overthrow it should it come to pass.
This paradoxically meant that the rights which most persons would accept as the most important — those flowing from concepts of natural justice — were devalued at the expense of more technical rights.
The framers of the Bill of Rights consistently used the words "right of the people" to reflect individual rights — as when these words were used to recognize the "right of the people" to peaceably assemble, and the "right of the people" against unreasonable searches and seizures.
www.constitution.org /mil/rkba1982.htm   (11289 words)

  
 Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Rice on Civil Rights and the 2nd Amendment.
Keeping in lockstep with the HCI agenda are the fomer Residents of the White House.
Firefighters For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms
www.urbin.net /EWW/polyticks/RKBA/rkba.html   (441 words)

  
 Gun Books : Firearms - General
Today, the right to own a gun is under assault like never before - we are hearing only one side of the story.
Champions the Second Amendment's right for all law-abiding American citizens & sharply criticizes gun-control laws as aiding & abetting in the acts of criminals.
The breathtaking panorama of America's extraordinary engravers & embellishers of arms, from the 1700's to modern times, with an introductory overview of the brilliant European antecedents and concurrent influences.
www.chartingnature.com /book-category.cfm?cat=840   (5300 words)

  
 Second Amendment Foundation Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Emerson case overturned a federal gun law as an unconstitutional violation of the individual right to keep and bear arms.
The pro-gun rights articles are important to help the reader hone their strong points for debates.
She reveals the original meaning behind and the intent of the right to keep and bear arms.
www.saf.org /books.html   (5755 words)

  
 Keep and Bear Arms - Gun Owners Home Page - 2nd Amendment Supporters
Man armed with fork subdued by clerk with baseball bat (and customer with gun) (AL)
In no way are Keep And Bear Arms.com or any of its agents responsible for the actions of our members or site visitors.
Thawte.com is the leading provider of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificate solutions used by enterprises, Web sites, and consumers to conduct secure communications and transactions over the Internet and private networks.
www.keepandbeararms.com   (863 words)

  
 Right to Keep and Bear Arms & Liberty Quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" - Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d Ed.
"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals...It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has the right to deprive them of." - Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789.
Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice.
home.earthlink.net /~dsscheibe/rkbaq.htm   (1538 words)

  
 Pro-Gun Bookstore & Fundraiser
"For the Defense of Themselves and the State : The Original Intent and Judicial Interpretation of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms " by Clayton E. Cramer.
"Armed and Considered Dangerous : A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms" by James D. Wright, Peter H. Rossi.
"To Keep and Bear Arms - The Origins of an Anglo-American Right" by Joyce Lee Malcolm $35.50 1994
www.gunbooks.org   (1342 words)

  
 FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Second Amendment
The opposing theories, perhaps oversimplified, are an ''individual rights'' thesis whereby individuals are protected in ownership, possession, and transportation, and a ''states' rights'' thesis whereby it is said the purpose of the clause is to protect the States in their authority to maintain formal, organized militia units.
United States, 445 U.S. n.8 (1980) (dictum: Miller holds that the ''Second Amendment guarantees no right to keep and bear a firearm that does not have 'some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia''').
Block, 81 F.3d 98 (9th Cir.) (plaintiff lacked standing to challenge denial of permit to carry concealed weapon, because Second Amendment is a right held by states, not by private citizens), cert.
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /data/constitution/amendment02   (953 words)

  
 van-kopp.com right to keep and bear arms pages
These pages are dedicated solely to the ideal that all people have the inalienable and irrevocable right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property, and their country.
I believe in this concept with all of my heart, due to both long familiarity with firearms and their proper use, and to long and exhaustive study of the volumes of information and empirical evidence available on the subject.
You'll find links to the sites of "right to keep and bear arms (RKBA)" organizations, firearm and accessory manufacturers, and other generally useful places for the shooting enthusiast, as well as a few sites and email addresses that belong to the opposition, arranged in no particular order.
www.van-kopp.com /rkba.html   (435 words)

  
 CCRKBA Home Page
This server contains valuable information regarding the Right to Keep and Bear Arms including current and proposed legislation, books regarding the second amendment, and hundreds of articles.
The Citizen Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a partner in maintaining a
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
www.ccrkba.org   (1365 words)

  
 rkba.org -- Arms Rights Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Support your Self-Defense rights with this new bumper sticker!
I hope the information here will encourage you to make your feelings known to your representatives, the media and the people around you.
Educating the people around you is the only way we're going to keep our rights.
www.rkba.org   (674 words)

  
 Official National Rifle Association of America Home Page
Push Is On For A New Bear Hunt
Bolton Fears Loss Of Momentum To Fix U.N. Bowhunter Outruns Bear In Chester Twp.
Shotgun Sports and the Constitutional Right to Hunt: Virginia Court to Decide Zoning Dispute
www.nra.org   (349 words)

  
 Knife Collecting - Cutlers Cove
Check your collection periodically and keep your knives in a dry location.
Make an asserted effort to wipe your knives at least once a month.
The following is a review of the 4th edition of Levine's Guide, the last edition endorsed by the author go here for the review.
cutlerscove.com /kwg/knife-collecting.htm   (1468 words)

  
 TX2A.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
TX2A.org is a non-profit, non-partisan, volunteer organization that works to promote education, knowledge, and the protection of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in Texas.
Members may suggest downloads, submit news stories, discuss related topics in the TX2A forums, participate in surveys, suggest new links, etc. The primary goal of this site is to keep Texans up-to-date on Second Amendment issues; nevertheless, any related topics are welcomed and open to discussion.
TX2A will send literature to all anti-CHL establishments, and will welcome these establishments to ask questions regarding the licensed carrying of weapons on their premises.
www.tx2a.org   (1323 words)

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