tely understand the issue, you must look at its history. The official text from the second amendment of the constitution states that ¡§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¡. The right to bear arms was officially recognized in England before the Invasion of 1066. They were required to keep weapons. But this was limited, since the 14th century there have been laws to control the use and ownership of weapons. Guns could not be carried in the public, and in the following centuries only the extremely rich and powerful could keep their weapons with them at all times. By the year 1671, it was required that to own 50 times the amount of land required to vote and to have a gun. After all theses restrictions only a very small fraction owned firearms, something in the area of 1%. Some Kings preferred a standing army to a militia, as a militia was a locally operated thing. Under King Charles II, gunsmiths had to keep sales records, and had to carry firearm licenses. After the death of King Charles II, his brother, James II, a catholic, used the arms restrictions as a tool of persecution against the Protestants, which he disliked greatly. After the revolution of 1688, Parliament made a right for Protestants to bear arms, and include it
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