Sec 32. “What shall be specified on tax list . . . Farming utensils, tools of mechanics, household and kitchen furniture, provisions, fire-arms..."

Public Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina, Sec 32. “What shall be specified on tax list . . . Farming utensils, tools of mechanics, household and kitchen furniture, provisions, fire-arms, libraries and scientific instruments”, 1905

"In England, this right is qualified by the condition, that the arms must be suitable to the condition and degree of the bearer; but here there is no qualification."

Introduction to American Law, “Also, “that the people have a right to bear arms for their defence and security.” In England, this right is qualified by the condition, that the arms must be suitable to the condition and degree of the bearer; but here there is no qualification .”, 1905

“But no means can be used which infringe the right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Constitution.”

Common Pleas Court, Walter V. The State Of Ohio, “But no means can be used which infringe the right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Constitution.”, Jan. 6, 1905

“Under this provision the people of Ohio, and all the people, are given the right, and the equal right, to carry arms for the purpose of self-defense and protection.”

Attorney General Wade H. Ellis, “Under this provision the people of Ohio, and all the people, are given the right, and the equal right, to carry arms for the purpose of self-defense and protection.”, June 14, 1906

“While under the theory of our organic law, the right of the citizen to bear arms in defense of his home and property is identical with that to defend his person..."

St. Louis Court of Appeals, “While under the theory of our organic law, the right of the citizen to bear arms in defense of his home and property is identical with that to defend his person, it is true that the right to employ such arms in defense of either home or property is not of that same high and sacred order as the right to defend his person, nevertheless such rights are analogous and nearly allied, as is manifest by the spirit of the Constitution”, July 9, 1906

“if we deprive the free citizenship of this right to keep and bear arms for the common defense, we have no more free citizens.”

Maine Senators Powers & Anthoine, “if we deprive the free citizenship of this right to keep and bear arms for the common defense, we have no more free citizens.”, March 18, 1925

“According to “The Federalist” this limitation indicates that the security of liberty against the tyrannical tendencies of power is only to be found in the right of the people to keep and bear arms with which to resist oppression.”

The Origin and Growth of the American Constitution, “According to “The Federalist” this limitation indicates that the security of liberty against the tyrannical tendencies of power is only to be found in the right of the people to keep and bear arms with which to resist oppression.”, 1911

This should make the "Progressives" wince....

1908: “It is not the police that the housebreaker fears, but the defensive weapon of the citizen whose house he enters with criminal intent.”

The National Magazine, “It is not the police that the housebreaker fears, but the defensive weapon of the citizen whose house he enters with criminal intent.”, Oct., 1907 to March, 1908

"Furthermore, it used to be a favorite means with arbitrary rulers to enslave their subjects by forbidding the keeping and bearing of arms."

Article II.–The Right to Bear Arms

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.

   159. The Right Important.–If the people were deprived of the right to keep and bear arms they would be lacking in preparation for war. Furthermore, it used to be a favorite means with arbitrary rulers to enslave their subjects by forbidding the keeping and bearing of arms. But while a person may go about in our country wjth a gun or other deadly weapon in the hand, he is not allowed to carry concealed deadly weapons. However, this is not forbidden by Congress, but by the States.

[The Government of the United States By L.S. Shimmell, Ph.D. District Supervisor Of Schools, Harrisburg, PA. Author Of "The Pennsylvania Citizen," "A History Of Pennsylvania," And "Border Warfare In Pennsylvania During The Revolution" New York Maynard, Merrill, & Co. 1906 Pg. 117]

1/16/1886: “Still, it has at all times urged the arming of all the people.”

The Current, “Still, it has at all times urged the arming of all the people.”, Jan. 16, 1886

"No officer, civil or military, or other person, shall take from or demand of the owner any firearms mentioned in this chapter, except where the services of the owner are also required to keep the peace or defend the state."

The Organic and Other General Laws of Oregon, “No officer, civil or military, or other person, shall take from or demand of the owner any firearms mentioned in this chapter, except where the services of the owner are also required to keep the peace or defend the state.”. Oct. 24, 1868

"where a so styled "armed people," like an avalanche, crushed standing armies of world known fame."

   "An amendment to our National Constitution says: "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." The truth of this provision requires no lengthy comment. The liberty of a people rests on themselves, on their character and institutions, and on their ability to guard against usurpation. The safety of a nation depends on their superiority of culture and the general knowledge the art of war. This was most powerfully demonstrated in the recent Franco-German war in Europe, where a so styled "armed people," like an avalanche, crushed standing armies of world known fame. The enforcement of laws requires often more than ordinary preparations, especially in a Republic as ours, which is subject to constant political fluctuations, and presents a conglomeration of all nationalities with different proclivities and propensities. We cannot, therefore, dispense with a system of military preparations, however cumbersome it may be to an industrious people. A good militia is the more needed as sound Republican principles demand that a regular standing army in a Republic be reduced to an absolute necessity."--Albert Sigel, Adjutant-General of Missouri, [Report Of The Adjutant-General For 1871. Jefferson City, Nov. 20, 1871. Pg. 12]

U.S. Senator A.G. Thurman: "Here is another right of a citizen of the United States, expressly declared to be his right--the right to bear arms; and this right, says the Constitution, shall not be infringed."

U.S. Senator A.G. Thurman, “Here is another right of a citizen of the United States, expressly declared to be his right–the right to bear arms; and this right, says the Constitution, shall not be infringed.”, Feb. 6, 1873

U.S. Senators Willey and Hendricks: ”If this infringes the right of the people to bear arms we have no authority to adopt it.”

U.S. Senators Willey and Hendricks, “it takes the right to bear arms away from every citizen of the southern States, loyal and disloyal”/”If this infringes the right of the people to bear arms we have no authority to adopt it.”, Feb. 26, 1867

N.Y. Gov. Horatio Seymour: "one of the sacred rights of every American citizen. The Government has so little confidence in the people of these States that it fears to trust them with the privilege of bearing arms."

   "Turning from the consideration of the military power let us ob- [Pg. 236] serve the policy of the Government. To-day our forces compass the mouth of the Mississippi, are present in the harbor of Charleston, and are struggling for the possession of Georgia under Sherman. But let me tell you, also, that to-day it requires more men to hold in the Union the three States of Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland, than the whole number originally called for to suppress the rebellion. In the beginning these States repudiated secession. Three years ago the North responded with unanimity to the calls of the Government. When on my return from the West at that time, the people Chicago, like the people of Milwaukee, were animated by a spirit unanimity and patriotism. What do we see now? The Government has so little confidence in the people that by an official order, just issued, it denies to the people of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, one of the sacred rights of every American citizen. The Government has so little confidence in the people of these States that it fears to trust them with the privilege of bearing arms. The Constitution declares that this right shall not be infringed. Our fathers believed it necessary for the protection of the people from the encroachments arbitrary power. You are told that the people of these States cannot be trusted with arms even to hunt their food upon your broad prairies."

[Pg. 238]

   "...We had been told that the South could not manage their own sectional affairs. We were told that if we were to stop the mouth of the Mississippi the Southern people would starve. We were told much about the superior cost of Southern mail carriage, and that the South could not be driven out of the Union. This course of dangerous agitation has continued until to day. The dominant party approves acts from the contemplation of which they once would have turned away with horror. Had I said here in Milwaukee, three years ago, that a general of the Federal army, this year, would issue an edict denying to the people of the North-west the right to bear arms, or that the writ of habeas corpus would now be suspended, and your citizens be subject to military arrest without the right of trial by jury, I should have been derided and scorned as a madman."--N.Y. Governor Horatio Seymour, speech in Milwaukee September 1, 1864. [Public Record: Including Speeches, Messages, Proclamations, Official Correspondence, And Other Public Utterances Of Horatio Seymour; From The Campaign of 1856 to the Present Time. With An Appendix. Compiled From The Most Authentic Sources, And Printed Exclusively For The Use Of Editors And Public Speakers. Compiled And Edited By Thomas M. Cook And Thomas W. Knox. New York: Published By I.W. England, At The Office of the N.Y. Sun. 1868.]

"a Body of Freemen, animated by a Love of Liberty, and trained to the Use of Arms, afford the most certain and effectual Defence against the Approaches of Slavery and Oppression."

Benjamin Franklin, “a Body of Freemen, animated by a Love of Liberty, and trained to the Use of Arms, afford the most certain and effectual Defence against the Approaches of Slavery and Oppression.”, Sept. 29, 1775

2-27-1775: John Adam’s perfect narrative of how a corrupt government coupled with big business started our Revolution

John Adam’s perfect narrative of how a corrupt government coupled with big business started our Revolution, “Peace is seldom made, and never kept, unless the subject retain such a power in his hands, as may oblige the prince to stand to what is agreed; and in time some trick is found to deprive them of that benefit.”, Feb. 27, 1775

Justices Trowbridge and Oliver: "private persons might not only arm themselves, but make use of their arms"

Justices Trowbridge and Oliver’s Charges to the Jury, [The Boston Massacre Trial] “for the suppressing whereof, private persons might not only arm themselves, but make use of their arms, if they could not otherwise suppress it.”, Dec. 5, 1770

March 8, 1748 Pennsylvania Gazette Ad placed by Benjamin Franklin

   "A Parcel of good Muskets, all well fitted with Bayonets, Belts and Cartouch-Boxes, and Buff Slings to cast over the Shoulder, very useful to such as have Occasion to ride with their Arms; To be sold by B. Franklin."--Pennsylvania Gazette, March 8, 1748

Benjamin Franklin 11/17/1747: "’Tis computed that we have at least (exclusive of the Quakers) 60,000 Fighting Men, acquainted with Fire-Arms"

Plain Truth by Benjamin Franklin, “If this now flourishing City, and greatly improving Colony, is destroy’d and ruin’d, it will not be for want of Numbers of Inhabitants able to bear Arms in its Defence. ’Tis computed that we have at least (exclusive of the Quakers) 60,000 Fighting Men, acquainted with Fire-Arms, many of them Hunters and Marksmen, hardy and bold.”, Nov. 17, 1747

Benjamiin Franklin, 1747: "most People having a Firelock of some kind or other already in their Hands"

Form of Association by Benjamin Franklin, “most People having a Firelock of some kind or other already in their Hands”, Nov. 24, 1747

U.S. Senator Cass: “the House struck out that part which authorizes the taking away of the arms of individuals. It was found, on reflection, to be clearly unconstitutional.”

U.S. Senators Cass & Benjamin/U.S. Rep. Phelps, “the House struck out that part which authorizes the taking away of the arms of individuals. It was found, on reflection, to be clearly unconstitutional.”/”in the exercise of our rights as American freemen, we mean to bear arms, the musket on the shoulder, or the rifle slung across our back, a revolver, if you please, by the side”/”those arms are not now the property of the United States–are now subject to no other control by this Government than the arms which I may have bought and own.”, July 28/Aug. 27, 1856

"This right "to keep and bear arms," implies the right to use them--as much as a provision securing to the people the right to buy and keep food, would imply their right also to eat it."

The Unconstitutionality Of Slavery by Lysander Spooner, “This right “to keep and bear arms,” implies the right to use them–as much as a provision securing to the people the right to buy and keep food, would imply their right also to eat it.”, 1847

“But in all countries where personal freedom is valued . . . [1877]

Commentaries On The Liberty Of The Subject, By James Paterson, “But in all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms–and these the best and the sharpest for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur.”, 1877

We are NOT "gun owners"...

   We are armed CITIZENS exercising our God-given and inalienable natural right to be able to defend ourselves from all enemies - foreign or domestic. Which of course includes those domestic "enemies" within our own governments that attempt to steal our rights away.

Here's a post from Blugrass Bruce worthy of attention...

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 New York State Deems 278 Gun Owners Too “Unstable” For Firearms New York State is set to confiscate firearms from nearly 300 individuals who the state has judged to be “mentally unfit”, reports say....

This is a dangerous precedent that we cannot afford to allow to be set.