Firearms, Militias, and the Second Amendment

Few images are more embedded in Americans’ historical consciousness than that of the “embattled farmers” of Lexington and Concord who grabbed their guns and gathered to repel the British regulars on April 19, 1775. In particular, Daniel Chester French’s 1875 sculpture ofThe Minute Manleaving his plo...

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Published inThe Second Amendment on Trial p. 310
Main Author Kevin M. Sweeney
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Massachusetts Press 21.08.2013
Subjects
Applied sciences
Armed conflict
Armed forces
Bill of Rights
Civil law
Colonies
Constitutional amendments
Federal law
Firearms
Government
Government officials
Governors
Guns
Handguns
Human geography
Law
Military personnel
Military science
Militias
Pistols
Political geography
Political science
Probate law
Projectile weapons
Second Amendment
Social sciences
Soldiers
Technology
United States Constitution
United States constitutional law
United States federal law
War
Weapons
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Summary:Few images are more embedded in Americans’ historical consciousness than that of the “embattled farmers” of Lexington and Concord who grabbed their guns and gathered to repel the British regulars on April 19, 1775. In particular, Daniel Chester French’s 1875 sculpture ofThe Minute Manleaving his plow with musket firmly in hand has become iconic, literally so for the NRA. What limited military training these men had came from membership in the colonial militia, which is usually described as having included all males from sixteen to sixty. In spite of—or, as some believe, because of—their limited exposure
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