“The legislature has no power to prescribe how the people shall bear arms . . . I think the people have a right to keep and bear arms as they choose for their own protection.”

Georgia Constitutional Convention Delegate Mr. Robert Augustus Toombs, “The legislature has no power to prescribe how the people shall bear arms–that they shall not carry them in their boots or anywhere else that they want to. I think the people have a right to keep and bear arms as they choose for their own protection.”, July 24, 1877