8-25-1856: U.S. Senator John B. Weller, "That inasmuch as the constitution of the United States and the organic act of said Territory has secured to the inhabitants thereof certain inalienable rights, of which they cannot be deprived by any legislative enactment . . . nor shall the rights of the people to keep and bear arms be infringed“

U.S. Senator John B. Weller, “Bill abrogating certain laws enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Kansas . . .That inasmuch as the constitution of the United States and the organic act of said Territory has secured to the inhabitants thereof certain inalienable rights, of which they cannot be deprived by any legislative enactment . . . nor shall the rights of the people to keep and bear arms be infringed“, Aug. 25, 1856