11-14-1850: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Levi Woodbury, “How does the question stand on the principles of our bill of rights? . . . You hold out the husk, but withdraw the kernel. You allow fire-arms, but neither gunpowder nor lead to load them and make them effective.”

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Levi Woodbury, “How does the question stand on the principles of our bill of rights? . . . Why not, then, let them aid in legislating to protect all these? You hold out the husk, but withdraw the kernel. You allow fire-arms, but neither gunpowder nor lead to load them and make them effective.”, Nov. 14, 1850