2nd Amendment
Historical Text
Original Text
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the peopl...
Federalist Papers No29
"The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be inj...
Anti-Federalists Papers No29
Hume, an aristocratical writer, has candidly confessed that an army is a moral distemper in a gov...
Militia Act of 1792
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ameri...
Second Militia Act of 1792
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ameri...
Militia Act of 1903
Dick championed the Militia Act of 1903, which became known as the Dick Act. The 1903 act repeale...
Court Cases
Historical Firearms & Others
Belton Flintlock (Wiki)[1777]
"The Belton flintlock was a repeating flintlock design using superposed loads, conceived by Phila...
Girardoni Air Rifle (Wiki)[1780]
The rifle was 4 ft (1.2 m) long and weighed 10 lb (4.5 kg), about the same basic size and weight ...
Pepper-box Revolver (Wiki)[1790]
Around 1790, pepperboxes were built on the basis of flintlock systems, notably by Nock in England...
Puckle Gun (Wiki)[1718]
The Puckle gun (also known as the defence gun) was a primitive crew-served, manually-operated fli...
Kalthoff Repeater (Wiki)[1690]
The Kalthoff repeater was a type of repeating firearm that was designed by members of the Kalthof...
Private Ship Authorized to Use Cannons [1812]
James Madison 1812 Letters of Marque
Statistics
Death Rates by Firearm [CDC](2019)
CDC - 2019 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
Homicide by Weapon Type [FBI](2012-2016)
FBI 2012-2016 https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-...
Methods of Suicide [NIH](2018)
National Institute of Mental Health 2018 - https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.s...
Mass Shootings By Country[WPR](2009-2015)
Average (Mean) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and...
Defensive Gun Uses (SSRN)[2021]
The survey further finds that approximately a third of gun owners (31.1%) have used a firearm to ...
Gun violence was on a downward trajectory before the 1994 ban(PEW)
Between 1993 and 2000, the gun homicide rate dropped by nearly half, from 7.0 homicides to 3.8 ho...
Tyrannical Over Reach
Watertown Illegal Searchs(YouTube)
Hurricane Katrina Gun Seizure(NBC)
City officials have agreed to return hundreds of firearms that police officers confiscated in the...
Hurricane Katrina Gun Seizure(Youtube)
Hurricane Katrina Unlawful Quartering(Youtube)
https://youtu.be/kf8trl69kzo?t=98
Bunkerville Bundy Standoff(Youtube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYVROEECNtQ&t=612s
Ruby Ridge(Wiki)
During the USMS reconnoiter of the Weaver property, six U.S. Marshals encountered Harris and Weav...
Waco Siege(Wiki)
Raid (February 28): 75 federal agents (ATF and FBI); 3 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters cr...
Miranda Ignored Boston Marathon(Wiki)
Interrogation United States Senators Kelly Ayotte, Saxby Chambliss, Lindsey Graham, and John McC...
Shootings
Texas Shooting, Store Linked to Criminal Investigation Already(NYP)[2022]
The Texas gun store where teen school shooter Salvador Ramos got an AR-15-style rifle before his ...
Texas Shooting, Timeline of Events(Wiki)[2022]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb_Elementary_School_shooting#Timeline_of_events