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  2. Second Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    But if "bear arms" means, as the petitioners and the dissent think, the carrying of arms only for military purposes, one simply cannot add "for the purpose of killing game". The right "to carry arms in the militia for the purpose of killing game" is worthy of the mad hatter. The dissenting justices were not persuaded by this argument. [265]

  3. Right to keep and bear arms in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the right to keep and bear arms, whether considered an individual or a collective or a militia right, did not originate fully formed in the Bill of Rights in 1791; rather, the Second Amendment was the codification of the six-centuries-old responsibility to keep and bear arms for king and country that was inherited from the English ...

  4. Right to keep and bear arms - Wikipedia

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    The Bill of Rights 1689 allowed Protestant citizens of England to "have Arms for their Defense suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law." This restricted the ability of the English Crown to have a standing army or to interfere with Protestants' right to bear arms "when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law" and established that Parliament, not the Crown, could regulate ...

  5. Right to bear arms ingrained in US, state constitutions | Opinion

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    Considering that both the federal and the state constitutions forbid the infringement of our right to keep and bear arms, I question how "a majority of our state legislators and all five statewide ...

  6. District of Columbia v. Heller - Wikipedia

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    District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and requirement that lawfully owned rifles ...

  7. Quote of the Moment: 'There's not a graphic arms race here ...

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    People are playing these games on their lunch break at office computers with no administrative access. There's an art quality arms race, but nobody is racing to bigger, better, more polygons.

  8. McDonald v. City of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.

  9. Bear hug - Wikipedia

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    The bear hug is a classic submission move not widely seen anymore, when done for real with maximum effort. [1] Traditionally the hugger would apply the move and wait for the huggie to submit, or pass out. The ref would occasionally check the limpness of the huggies arms before calling the match. The move was dangerous.