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Debate on early 19th century gun laws

Saul Cornell's argument is here.

Robert Leider's reply is here.

I think Leider gets much the better of the exchange. Not that a law enacted in one state, or an ordinance in one city, in the 1860s gives much insight into what the American people understood by the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms."