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From: bermes@ihu1m.UUCP (Terry Bermes)
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Subject: Re: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA
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    Sunny Kirsten writes of the NRA:

  "It also supports the second ammendment to the US
Constitution, which many people seem to forget exists."



  However, the second amendment, in its entirety, reads:

  "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

   This hardly seems to support a private citizen's claim of the right to
own a handgun. As a matter of fact on October 3, 1983, the Supreme Court
refused to overturn a handgun law in Morton Grove, Illinois. The Supreme
Court let stand a Court of Appeals ruling which stated,"....possession
of handguns by individuals is not part of the right to keep and bear arms...".

The quote above comes from the phamphlet "Handgun Facts" distributed by
Handgun Control, Inc. Of course this will probably be immediately discounted
by those opposed to handgun control because the information comes from a 
pro-control (not pro-ban) organization. 
                                        Terry Bermes