The right to keep and bear arms (RKBA) or right to bear arms is the concept that people have a personal right to weapons for individual use, or a collective right to bear arms in a militia, or both.
The people's right to have their own arms for their defense is described in the philosophical and political writings of Aristotle, Cicero, John Locke, Machiavelli and Jefferson. Though possessing arms appears to be distinct from "bearing" them, the possession of arms is recognized as necessary for and a logical precursor to the bearing of arms.
Don Kates, a civil liberties lawyer, cites historic English usage describing the "right to keep and bear their private arms." The phrase in the Pennsylvania ratifying convention states:
"The people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and their own state, or the United States, or the purpose of killing game; and no law shall be passed for disarming the people or any of them, unless for crimes committed..."
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News Arizona's concealed-weapon law takes effect
07-29-2010
Arizona Republic
Starting today, Arizona residents at least 21 years old can carry a concealed weapon without a permit. Arizona joins Alaska and Vermont as the only states to allow concealed weapons without a permit. The impact is likely to be different in Arizona
News Michael Badnarik Meet & Greet Pot Luck at Freedom's Phoenix TONIGHT!
07-28-2010
R3VOLUTION in Phoenix & RKBA MeetUp Groups
2004 LP Presidential Candidate and current President of the Continental Congress Michael Badnarik speaks at the Freedom's Phoenix Workshop!
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News ATF seizes more than 1000 guns in raid of East Mesa home
07-20-2010
www.azcentral.com
Federal authorities seized more than 1,000 firearms from the unincorporated east Mesa home of a man they accuse of being an unlicensed gun dealer who unlawfully sold firearms at area gun shows.
News Gun Permit Allows Quick Access to Texas Capitol
07-19-2010
AP
Everyone from lobbyists to lawyers and journalists is rushing to get permits to carry guns inside the Texas Capitol, where legislators already often tote pistols in boots and purses or stow them away inside their desks.
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News Judge rips sheriff for rejecting gun permit
07-18-2010
nationalgunrights.org
In Iowa, Osceola County Sheriff Douglas Weber was reprimanded by a federal judge for refusing to issue a concealed weapons permit to conservative activist Paul Dorr. The reason? Many Osceola County residents were putt off by Mr. Dorrs conservative
News Hero Training: The Best Weapons for Home Defense
07-17-2010
Jeff Barnett via LewRockwell.com
When you become the man of the house you inherit a sacred responsibility to protect your family. Former Marine Jeff Barnett gives the bottom line on the best tools for the job we hope youll never have to use. Jeff is a former Marine with a lifetime
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News NRA MEMBERS NEED TO SAY: ENDORSE SHARRON ANGLE!
071610
www.varight.com
The NRA is rumored to be able to endorse Sen. Harry Reid. Their members need to stand up and say NO! Support the RIGHT ANGLE instead: Sharron Angle for US Senate!
Sandy Sanders
News Gun Owners of America: Senate should vote down Kagan
07-15-2010
Gun Owners of America
Kagan ascribes to Judicial Supremacy. She holds precedent over original intent and uses 'levels of scrutiny' to corrode our rights. Vote NO on Kagan.
Christopher Kuper
News When Good People Carry Guns
07-13-2010
Massas Ayoob
The permit (or license if you will; I steer clear of that particular semantic trap) to carry a concealed weapon has been the subject of much debate over the last few decades.
News UN Treaty which Bans Guns reaches U.S. (Video Included)
07/13/2010
godlikeproductions.com
On October 30 2009, the United States joined 152 countries in support of an "Arms Trade Treaty Resolution" (1), which establishes dates for a 2012 United Nations conference intended to strip American/global sovereignty by stripping citizens of thei
Phennommennonn Glp
News Beyond Guns: N.R.A. Expands Agenda
07-12-2010
NY Times
Fresh off a string of victories in the courts and Congress, the National Rifle Association is flexing political muscle outside its normal domain, with both Democrats and Republicans courting its favor on issues that have little to do with guns.
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News New York National Guard Units Scan Vehicles For Gun Confiscations
07-08-2010
InfoWars.com/
The New York National Guard is working with local law enforcement authorities to perform sophisticated scans of vehicles entering the New York area looking for guns and drugs in the latest alarming example of how America is under a state of de facto
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News Lawsuit filed against Chicago's new gun laws
07-07-2010
AP
Four Chicago residents and a gun sellers group have sued the city over a tough new gun control ordinance put in place after the U.S. Supreme Court made a decades-old firearms ban unenforceable.
The federal lawsuit claims the new ordinance, which
News American Airlines 'loses Netanyahu's bodyguard's guns'
07-07-2010
BBC News
A bag belonging to agents travelling with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was mistakenly put on a flight from New York to Los Angeles, not to Washington. And now the Glocks are missing.
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News Gun Owners of America At YAF's "Constitution not Kagan" Rally
07-01-2010
Young Americans for Freedom
Christopher Kuper Gun Owners of America At YAF's "Constitution not Kagan" Rally speaks against the nomination of Elena Kagan at the US Supreme Court, Washington DC
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Christopher Kuper
Letters to the Editor Wrong State
Written by: Billy McCarty
It isn't Montana it is Wyoming.
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News Montana suspends gun show taxes over fear for safety of agents
07-04-2010
The Billings Gazette
Man, what better way to celebrate July 4th than with news like this?!
Hell yeah, baby!
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News Mayor Daley tells Supreme Court to Go F-itself on Guns
07-02-2010
AP
The measure, which draws from ordinances around the country, would ban gun shops in Chicago and prohibit gun owners from stepping outside their homes, even onto their porches or garages, with a handgun. 3 days after the US Supreme Court ruled
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News Utah gun permit business booming - in other states
06-28-2010
Reuters
Never shot a gun? Never been to Utah? Got a "combat mindset"? If yes to the above, you could qualify for a concealed gun permit from Utah, which is seeing record demand for permits from people all across the United States who never been to the state
News Supreme Court rules that all Americans have fundamental right to bear arms
06-28-2010
Washington Post
The court was considering a restrictive handgun law in Chicago and one of its suburbs that was similar to the District law that it ruled against in 2008. The 5 to 4 decision does not strike any other gun control measures currently in place, but it pr
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News Supremes UPHOLD Second Amendment!!!
06/28/2010
Gene Kernan; www.TheAmericanRepublic.com
In a blow to Chicago (and "14th Amendment citizenship is evil" proponents everywhere), Alito, joined in some parts by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas; in others with Roberts, Scalia and Kennedy, with Scalia, and Thomas concurring, fired an
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Gene Kernan
Opinion Rantings Of The Gundude
WACO: Soon to be a major motion picture
06-24-2010 Chip Saunders
Mark Ruffalo as David Koresh, Kurt Russell as FBI negotiator Byron Sage, Adrian Brody and Sharon Stone as Davidians Mr. & Mrs. Schneider. Screenplay by Phoenix New Times reporter James Hibberd, and consulting by James McNulty who produced Waco: Rules
News Page Nine - No. 87 - from Alan Korwin
06-21-2010
GunLaws.com
Contents: L.A.Times Gun Truth - Guns Decrease Crime - Suicide Absolves Guilt? - Federal Firearm Database (plural) - Mexico Cedes Arizona & more!
News Progressives Want "Direct Action" But a Disarmed Public
06-20-2010
CounterPunch.org
The stupidity of Americans is extraordinary. Wall Street is going to put a socialist in the White House?! If the word under Obamas image had been prostitute, the message would have been on target.
News Wall Street Journal Confirms NRA Sell-Out
06-17-2010
www.ammoland.com & Wall Street Journal
Colorado --(Ammoland.com)- Washington is ablaze with news about the NRAs abandonment of free speech. Some of you still may not believe the NRA could strike such a gruesome deal with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi on the DISCLOSE Act, which is sponsored
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Headlines: Today we are a Constitutional Carry state in AZ. Let the random shootings begin! -- Arizona's concealed-weapon law takes effect -- Michael Badnarik Meet & Greet Pot Luck at Freedom's Phoenix TONIGHT! -- Woman 2, thugs 0 after home invasion -- ATF seizes more than 1000 guns in raid of East Mesa home -- Gun Permit Allows Quick Access to Texas Capitol -- Judge rips sheriff for rejecting gun permit -- Hero Training: The Best Weapons for Home Defense -- NRA MEMBERS NEED TO SAY: ENDORSE SHARRON ANGLE! -- Gun Owners of America: Senate should vote down Kagan -- When Good People Carry Guns -- UN Treaty which Bans Guns reaches U.S. (Video Included) -- Beyond Guns: N.R.A. Expands Agenda -- New York National Guard Units Scan Vehicles For Gun Confiscations -- Lawsuit filed against Chicago's new gun laws -- American Airlines 'loses Netanyahu's bodyguard's guns' -- Gun Owners of America At YAF's "Constitution not Kagan" Rally -- Wrong State -- Montana suspends gun show taxes over fear for safety of agents -- Mayor Daley tells Supreme Court to Go F-itself on Guns -- NRA Now Leans Toward Endorsing Harry Reid?! Over Pro-Gun Republican?! WTF?!?! -- Utah gun permit business booming - in other states -- Liberal progressives predict mass deaths. Not because of Mexican Gulf oil but because we have guns. -- Supreme Court rules that all Americans have fundamental right to bear arms -- Supremes UPHOLD Second Amendment!!! -- WACO: Soon to be a major motion picture -- Page Nine - No. 87 - from Alan Korwin -- Progressives Want "Direct Action" But a Disarmed Public -- Wall Street Journal Confirms NRA Sell-Out -- NRA makes deal with the Devil: Agrees to back 1st Amend. restrictions for exclusive exceptions. --
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