¹ Robert Spitzer, Gregg Carter, "The Debate," Second Amendment Research Center website, available online at: http://www.secondamendmentcenter.org/debate4.asp

² "Sources on the Second Amendment and Rights to Keep and Bear Arms in State Constitutions," available online at: http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/2amteach/SOURCES.HTM#TOC2

³ James Jacobs, Robert Spitzer, "The Debate," Second Amendment Research Center website, available online at: http://www.secondamendmentcenter.org/debate4.asp; Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, 2007 Small Arms Survey, portions available online at: http://www.mibazaar.com/gunownership.html

⁴ Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, 2007 Small Arms Survey, portions available online at: http://www.mibazaar.com/gunownership.html

⁵ Some Facts about Guns," Gun Control Network Website, available online at: http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF01.htm

⁶ "Statistics: Gun Violence in Our Communities," National Education Association Health Information Network website, available online at: http://www.neahin.org/programs/schoolsafety/gunsafety/statistics.htm

⁷ "Sources on the Second Amendment and Rights to Keep and Bear Arms in State Constitutions," available online at: http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/2amteach/SOURCES.HTM#TOC2

⁸ "Sources on the Second Amendment and Rights to Keep and Bear Arms in State Constitutions," available online at: http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/2amteach/SOURCES.HTM#TOC2

⁹ See Saul Cornell, A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (New York: Oxford, 2006), 20.

¹⁰ Virginia Declaration of Rights, available online at The Avalon Project: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/virginia.asp

¹¹ See Saul Cornell, A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (New York: Oxford, 2006).

¹² See Saul Cornell, A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (New York: Oxford, 2006), 193.

¹³ See Saul Cornell, A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (New York: Oxford, 2006), 193-194.

¹⁴ See Saul Cornell, A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (New York: Oxford, 2006), 193-194.

¹⁵ Gregg Carter, "The Debate," Second Amendment Research Center website, available online at: http://www.secondamendmentcenter.org/debate4.asp

¹⁶ Bruce Lambert, Harlon B. Carter, "Longtime Head of Rifle Association Dies at 78," New York Times, 22 Nov 1991, available inline at: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE1D8153DF931A15752C1A967958260

¹⁷ Quoted in Osha Gray Davidson, Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998), 45.

¹⁸ Emilie Raymond, From My Cold, Dead Hands, Charlton Heston and American Politics (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006), 258.

¹⁹ George Bush to Thomas Washington, 3 May 1995, available online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=mNK_3ftzvbgC&pg=PA591&lpg=PA591&dq=oklahoma+city,+bush,+lapierre&source=bl&ots=hTvXGlKfLX&sig=OGke5hDJ7EtxdsY39QtpcB1st2A&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA591,M1

²⁰ George Bush to Thomas Washington, 3 May1995, available online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=mNK_3ftzvbgC&pg=PA591&lpg=PA591&dq=oklahoma+city,+bush,+lapierre&source=bl&ots=hTvXGlKfLX&sig=OGke5hDJ7EtxdsY39QtpcB1st2A&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA591,M1

²¹ "Dumping the NRA," The Seattle Times, 25 May 1995, available online at: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950525&slug=2122951

²² Telegram from Charlton Heston to Lawrence Levinson, 12 June 1968, and statement signed by Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, James Stewart, and Kirk Douglas, June 1968, available online at: http://www.vpc.org/nrainfo/docs.htm

²³ Charlton Heston, Address to the Free Congress Foundation, 1997, available inline at: http://concordlive.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/charlton-heston-on-political-correctness-1997-address-to-the-free-congress-foundation/

²⁴ Charlton Heston, Address before the Harvard Law School forum, 16 February 1999, available online at: http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/heston_culture_war/2008/04/06/85865.html

²⁵ "Some Facts about Guns," Gun Control Network Website, available online at: http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF01.htm

²⁶ "Statistics: Gun Violence in Our Communities," National Education Association Health Information Network website, available online at: http://www.neahin.org/programs/schoolsafety/gunsafety/statistics.htm

²⁷ Gregg Carter, "The Debate," Second Amendment Research Center website, available online at: http://www.secondamendmentcenter.org/debate1.asp

²⁸ United States v. Cruikshank, Justia: US Supreme Court Center, available online at: http://supreme.justia.com/us/92/542/case.html,

²⁹ Presser v. Illinois, Justia: US Supreme Court Center, available online at: http://supreme.justia.com/us/116/252/case.html

³⁰ United States v. Miller, Justia: US Supreme Court Center, available online at: http://supreme.justia.com/us/307/174/case.html

³¹ District of Columbia v. Heller, Justia: US Supreme Court Center, available online at: http://supreme.justia.com/us/554/07-290/

³² Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, excerpt available online at: http://home.comcast.net/~dsmjd/tux/dsmjd/rkba/story.htm

³³ James Dao, "NRA Leaders Casts Gore as Archenemy," New York Times, 21 May 2000, available online at: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/052100nra-gore.html

³⁴ Gregg Lee Carter, Guns in American Society: AN Encyclopedia, of History, Politics, Culture and the Law (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002), 101-102.