ABSTRACT

One of the exasperating characteristics of the Bill of Rights is that it is often difficult to determine what the Founding Fathers were thinking when they wrote the basic elements of Americans’ personal freedoms. This is certainly the case with the wording of the Second Amendment and its definition of gun rights. The Second Amendment states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”