While browsing around, I ran across this: 1982 Senate Report on RKBA.
Thurmond chaired the sub-committee, and Hatch, DeConcini, Grassley, and Leahy were on it. This is one of their findings:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>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. Such an "individual rights" interpretation is in full accord with the history of the right to keep and bear arms, as previously discussed. It is moreover in accord with contemporaneous statements and formulations of the right by such founders of this nation as Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams, and accurately reflects the majority of the proposals which led up to the Bill of Rights itself. [/quote]
Ironically, they did the study with an eye towards how legal gun control restrictions could be, during Reagan's first term.
I haven't read the whole thing, but this is priceless. Is anyone familiar with it??
[This message has been edited by Joseph (edited March 04, 2000).]
Thurmond chaired the sub-committee, and Hatch, DeConcini, Grassley, and Leahy were on it. This is one of their findings:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>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. Such an "individual rights" interpretation is in full accord with the history of the right to keep and bear arms, as previously discussed. It is moreover in accord with contemporaneous statements and formulations of the right by such founders of this nation as Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams, and accurately reflects the majority of the proposals which led up to the Bill of Rights itself. [/quote]
Ironically, they did the study with an eye towards how legal gun control restrictions could be, during Reagan's first term.
I haven't read the whole thing, but this is priceless. Is anyone familiar with it??
[This message has been edited by Joseph (edited March 04, 2000).]