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Originally Posted by sirgilligan
Following are a few excerpts from "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms", Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution. United States 97th Congress. The purpose of the subcommittee was to document the real intent of the founding fathers and framers of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, and to put to rest those that want to introduce vague speculation as to meanings of words, commas, and such.
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Link to the full report:
https://www.constitution.org/mil/rkba82.pdf
I strongly advise anyone who finds this report interesting to make a copy of it. In the 37 years since it first came out it has appeared on various .gov web sites, then disappeared, reappeared elsewhere, then disappeared again. The link I have is to a copy hosted by The Constitution Society. We can hope that they will preserve it, but the report doesn't fit the current narrative, so nothing is certain. Download it and save your own copy to be sure you'll have it if you need to cite it.
The same applies to the 2004 Department of Justice report on the Second Amendment:
https://www.justice.gov/sites/defaul...v028-p0126.pdf
This report, too, has been posted on various .gov web sites, then disappeared, then reappeared, and then disappeared again. For the moment, it's up again. Under the Obama administration, it couldn't be found. Save a copy.