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...and then there's this lovely reality of millions of armed people who are willing to fight over their preceived right because disappearance of it would trigger a meltdown of other rights as well. We might not have recognition of a right but we think we have it and we do have the guns...so it becomes a reality.
There's no middle ground in this issue. Enough of us intend to stay armed that we can be stopped only by being killed or imprisoned...otherwise we remain a mortal danger to the would-be infringers. Don't even need guns to ambush one of them and take his weapon...but having even a hundred-year old rifle makes the task easier. So the origin of our right is similar to the origin of Finnish independence, both in 1919 and in 1940 and in 1944...it was recognized when the USSR ran out of soldiers. I just acquired a Finnish Mosin-Nagant and it would be a real shame if I have to use something so old and obsolete to enforce my rights. I much prefer to use it for plinking at pop cans.
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