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To: Ira Player who wrote (33933)	5/2/2005 6:59:11 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Who? "If you look back historically to the origin of the Second Amendment, you will find in the printed dialog the following opinions predominate..." Sound familiar?

To: Ira Player who wrote (33933)	5/2/2005 7:54:30 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 90947

"The AntiFederalists’ concern was with the states having to share control of their militias with the federal government and not— to any degree yet demonstrated— with protecting gun rights of their local citizens outside of their obligation to serve in their respective states’ well-regulated militias." -Prof. Don Higginbotham, UNC-Chapel Hill And speaking of the Anti-Federalists, you can find some interesting information on Anti-Federalist pols' positions on gun and militia regulation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Militia Act of 1792, and extensive scholarly historical research into the meaning of "to bear arms" and other aspects of the second amendment argument at www.potowmack.org.