1Michel A. Bellesiles, Arming America, the Origins of National Gun Culture, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, p. 4.
2Associate Press, April 12, 2001.
3Cited from Lee Kennett and James La Verne Anderson, The Gun in America, Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 1975,p. 42.
4Philip B. Sharpe, The Rifle in America, New York: William Morrow, 1938, p.4.
5Cited from Lee Kennett and James La Verne Anderson, op. cit., p.36.
6William Hening, The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in 1619, at pp. 127,173-74(New York, 1823).
7Cited from "The Right To Keep And Bear Arms, Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, second session," Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982, p.3.
8William Brigham, The Compact with the Charter and Laws of the Colony of New Plymouth, 31, 76 (Boston, 1836).
9Duke of York's Laws (1665-1675). Cited from John Levin, "The Right to Bear Arms: The Development of The American Experience," Chicago-Kent Law Review, 48,Fall-Winter, 1971, p. 149.
10Lee Kennett and James La Verne Anderson, op. cit., p. 252.
