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Powder Alarms
[edit]The point about the King and Parliament is further corroborated by the series of powder alarms in several colonies. One powder alarm in particular, the Portsmouth Alarm, saw the Patriots turn the tables in reverse and instead of it being the colonists' powder being limited, it was the King's powder (that is what they called it at the time) was what limited when the colonial leaders captured a British fort and carried off weapons, ammo, powder, and supplies.
Charles Lathrop Parsons details the events with original sources in his short work about it.
The Capture of Fort William and Mary - Librivox audio book [1]
Progressingamerica (talk) 18:00, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
A most relevant amicus brief, which should at least be mentioned if not also quoted
[edit]From the entry for Richard W. Bailey in Wikipedia:
In 2008, Bailey co-authored an amicus brief with colleagues Dennis Baron and Jeffrey Kaplan, for the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court case, providing an interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution based on the grammars, dictionaries, and general usage common in the founders' day, and showing that those meanings are still common today. AlageveR45 (talk) 17:05, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Legal Test for 2nd Amendment - Purposes of Enlightenment/Education
[edit]Second Amendment Law "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."
Are you in a well regulated militia? The state militia was renamed the National Guard in early 1900s. Do you provide for security of a free state? Duty of the state militia is to defend it's respective state.
It's important to remember the history of the militia. Where it was once improvised even far back as 1791, it was operated by the States and Funded by the Federal government. Meaning it move out of the public sector and into the government sector.
To fulfill all the text in the 2nd Amendment, you need to be in the National Guard or even the U.S. military which provides "security of a free state", where keeping and bearing of arms is required. 174.61.216.211 (talk) 04:03, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
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