NRA’s 35-Year Battle to Define the 2nd Amendment
Thursday, 14 March 2013 | by Pat's Picks
There’s a fascinating Washington Post story this morning about the 35-year effort made by the NRA to firm up the Second Amendment—the “right to bear arms”—as a constitutional fact in the US. For the last three decades, the organization has bombarded the legal world with scholarly articles, lectures, and research that contend owning a gun is an individual’s right, an interpretation that the Post says wasn’t always the norm.