Eric Black’s last installement in his three part series on the Second Amendment begins,

“Former Chief Justice Warren Burger (who was so devoted to the U.S. Constitution that he retired from the high court in order to lead the national celebration of the Constitution’s bicentennial in 1987) gave an interview on the PBS “Newshour” in 1991 in which he said that the Second Amendment “has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word ‘fraud,’ on the American public.”

Burger believed that the Second Amendment guaranteed the right of states, through their militias, to arm those militias. The “fraud,” in his view, was the National Rifle Association’s campaign to interpret the amendment as a guarantee of each individual citizen’s right to arm himself.

The full story can be found at:

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