A first-rate study of the historical development of the 2nd Amendment

This long and somewhat older law article by Don Kates gives much info on the historical development of the 2nd.  It doesn't cover the 2008 and 2010 USSC decisions that have definitively clarified the 2nd as a full member of the Bill of Rights.  I met Kates when he was a law student doing civil rights work in the Deep South during the summer of 1964.  We've published gun rights stuff together in a couple of books -- been at and spoken at a couple of gun issues conferences. http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/kates.self.protection.html

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HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis 
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk 
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO
www.hunterbear.org 
(much social justice material)

I have always lived and worked in the Borderlands.

See my piece ON BEING A MILITANT AND RADICAL
ORGANIZER -- AND AN EFFECTIVE ONE (Mississippi et al.):
http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm

The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
(Expanded in Fall 2012. Photos. Material on our Native
background.) 

See the new and expanded/updated edition of my very well-reviewed 
"Organizer's Book" -- the inside story of the massive Jackson
Mississippi Movement, the murder of Medgar Evers, and more.
And with my new and very substantial introduction:
http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm