The Second Amendment does not refer to "muskets"; it refers to "the right of the people to keep and bear arms." "Bear" means to carry, so any handheld firearm carried by the military can be ...

Back in 1998—a decade before Heller—Prof. Carl Bogus claimed to have discovered a "hidden history" showing that the Second Amendment was adopted to ensure that militias could enforce slave ...

Regarding the letter’s diatribe on the Second Amendment and flintlock muskets, I suggest the writer review history. This nation was […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now.

Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera held up a musket during a tense debate on gun control Tuesday’s edition of Hannity on Fox News.. His point was that the Second Amendment, which was ratified ...

Unfortunately, at the present time, instead of the presence of huge, single-fire, once every twenty seconds guns (muskets and flintlocks) that cost a month’s wages in 1792, today we’ve got ...

The claim: The Second Amendment reference to a 'well-regulated militia' was limited in 1791 to one musket and 24 bullets. After mass shootings this year in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas ...

The Second Amendment is breathtakingly short ... First, the most sophisticated weapon available to citizens in 1791 was a musket. And they weren’t for “recreational” purposes.

There are now two versions of the Second Amendment: One is the Founding Fathers' original Bill of Rights (1791), and the other is the Supreme Court's Heller case (2008). The Bill of Rights: “A ...

In response to the June 6 letter concerning the Second Amendment (“Wrong to suggest electorate would take up arms“), when that was passed in the late 18th century, it took maybe a minute to a ...

A new petition filed with the Supreme Court on Friday asks the justices to find a nearly 100-year-old firearm regulation ...

Moreover, the Second Amendment codifies a preexisting right, creating the presumption that the covered conduct is protected. Additionally, this is how other constitutional rights like speech are ...