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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Right to Bear Arms Still Exists

The Supreme Court ruled that individuals have the right to own guns.

Click here for the Patriot News story. Some early commentary from Reason Foundation, Amanda Carpenter, and Capital Research Center.

For a history lesson, it was the Pennsylvania ratification convention in Harrisburg which first proposed a Bill of Rights which included the right to bear arms (#7), which was far more explicit as to the question the court ruled on today.

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