What Does The 2nd Amendment Say?
Civics 101
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The History of the Second Amendment
Saul cornell, professor of history at fordam university and former director of the second amendment research center. You can go back to the fourteenth century and the statue of northampton, hundreds of years before guns even exist. During american revolution, authorities would forcibly disarm you if you didn't swear a loyalty oath to protect your governmentYou could keep a gun in your house, though in boston in 17 86, you couldn't keep a loaded one there. And later on, these rules also extended to places where, due to hollywood, we tend not to think of as heavily restricted, gun wise.
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