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Couldn't do until 2008. the supreme court never ruled that way until 2008. >> and a big part of changing the way that society and the way the courts view the second amendment was the nra. >> the nra has been foreign a-lo around for a long time since the civil war. we think of it as speaking for hunters, but in 1977, there was a backlash to the 1960s that happened in many, many kinds of organizations. and there was what they called a revolt at cincinnati, annual meeting of the nra, a thousand activists came and booted out the previous leadership and installed new leadership who were much more d...

Absolute right for private citizens to have guns pro protect themselves is not what the founders intended. >> it is striking when you look at the debate that produced the second amendment, the real one, not the one in our imagination. the original debate was about the militias. and the reason the -- they put it in, the constitution, was to protect the 13 state militias that were actually made up of citizen soldiers. not like what we have now. not like the national guard. all men and eventually all white men were required to be in the militia for their entire adult life, and required to own a g...

Authorized new funding for background checks, a small step, but still a step forward in the eyes of gun control advocates. they're arguing for tougher reforms. some argue the status quo is what the founding fathers wanted. but was it? that's in a fascinating new book "the second amendment" a biography by michael walidman, the bredden center for justice. the founders considered expanding gun rights. the federalists completely and totally dominated the congress in 1789. they were not interested in creating or protecting the right to kill game, to hint in seasonal times to fish in all waters or t...

Had religious scruples about bearing arms, you didn't have to do your military service in person. 12 people spoke on the floor of the house and all about who would be in the militias and how they would decide who would serve. what's interesting is, first of all, right after it enacted the second amendment, that militia system where you had an individual right but for the duty to serve crumbled. the country changed. people stopped showing up for the militia duty. and over the decades, of course there was lots of people with guns and gun culture. but always side by side gun laws. even in the wil...