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To: ManyMoose who wrote (679299)	4/13/2005 9:46:22 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Yes its unfortunate that it wasn't written in today's language so that today's morons can figure it out. The reality is if you look at the 50 State Constitutions, they all use similar prefatory language. The meaning then was that just because there was prefatory language it never meant that was the ONLY reason for the clause that followed. The State Constitutions of the time surely indicate the real meaning of the 2nd Amendment as first an individual right and second as securing a right to the weapons commonly kept and carried at all times. What the anti-gunners do is separate the plain language away from the legislative history, the founding fathers papers to include the Federalist papers and the State Constitutions and their legislative histories. They as well as the Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts say they are bound by all they Courts of Appeals rulings..yet they COMPLETELY IGNORE the 1939 Miller Supreme Court ruling which first gave standing to individuals, thus affirming an individuals right and also affirming the right to posess all weapons that have a reasonable relationship to the efficiency of a military militia. They thought a sawed off shotgun wasn't a proper militia/military weapon because there was no evidence provided showing its military utility (Miller received NO representation). The reality is even a sawed off shotgun was used as a trench gun in WWI and WWII. Surely machine guns are militia weapons because our military ONLY issues machine guns to its soldiers.