FACT: This common assertion assumes that modern guns have a fundamentally different nature than weapons that were available in 1791 when the Second Amendment was ratified and 1868 when the ...

We must disabuse ourselves of the notion that more guns make us safer. There is literally no scientific evidence to support ...

The Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments as to whether "ghost guns" qualify as firearms — but the question doesn't ...

A federal appeals court on Monday appeared likely to uphold Massachusetts' ban on AR-15s and other semiautomatic weapons and ...

Likewise, only dealers and persons specifically designated can possess or transport automatic weapons. The Second Amendment ... unalienable American right since 1791. Public safety and the Second ...

Then, in August 1791, a massive slave insurrection began in the northern ... Beginning in 1794, France pursued a policy of "revolutionary emancipationism," using abolition as a weapon of war against ...

A guide to the weapons available in the US and the rate ... The Second Amendment, adopted in 1791, gives Americans the right to "keep and bear arms". The Constitution, though, can be altered.

When a bill to abolish slavery in the British colonies failed to pass Parliament in 1791, William Fox started ... tobacco, military weapons, civilian firearms, nuclear power, adult entertainment ...

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that the framers of the 1791 Second Amendment (the right to bear arms) were thinking in terms of muskets, flintlocks and similar weapons, not the ...

While cleaning out the house, Farmer said, the Wood family hired him to appraise 18th- and 19th-century furniture, books, maps and weapons in the ... 10 were ratified in 1791.

The charter of the First Bank of the United States was for 20 years (1791-1811). J.P. Morgan and ... Greenspan used the additional weapon of low interest rates to carry business through the ...

Weapon kits often include frames and receivers ... dating back to some time between the signing of the Bill of Rights in 1791 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. The decision set off a series ...