The historical evidence is conclusive. The Second Amendment was intended to express an individual right, and any alternate “collective rights” theories are modern fictions developed by those with an agenda to control guns. In the words of Sanford Levinson from the University of Texas, this “view was virtually unknown before the 1960s.”
"In Search of the Second Amendment," my Rights Watch column for the March 2007 issue of GUNS Magazine, is now online.
Also see: "In Search of the Second Amendment"--An Interview With David T. Hardy
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