"As for repelling invasions, a reservoir of citizens with arms will always remain relevant. In 1941, when fear existed of a Nazi invasion of the United Kingdom, George Orwell wrote about the Home Guard, of which he was a member: “The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer’s cottage, is the symbol of democracy."  -- George Orwell 

From George Orwell, “Don’t Let Colonel Blimp Ruin the Home Guard,” Evening Standard, Jan. 8, 1941, quoted in Halbrook, America's Rifle: The Case for the AR-15, p. 339.
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"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them [arms]; ... the weak will become a prey to the strong."  -- Thomas Paine, Pennsylvania Magazine 

From: Halbrook, The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?, p. 151 (hardback edition).
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"While French regimes historically imposed various restrictions on gun ownership, in 1935 Prime Minister Laval issued an unprecedented decree imposing firearm registration.  The timing could not have been worse.  The German occupation that began in 1940 decreed the death penalty for gun ownership, and the French police--the repository of the registration records--enforced German policy.  Laval became the collaborator-in-chief."  

From Halbrook, Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France, pgs. 3-4.
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Mark W. Smith of 4 Boxes Diner ( @thefourboxesdiner ) and I discussed my new book, America's Rifle: The Case for the AR-15.

The interview is titled "AMERICA'S RIFLE: The Case For The AR-15..." and is available on "The Four Boxes Diner" YouTube channel at:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtddE-9g5Do

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
0:51 New History Book
1:51 Why AR-15 Book?
3:42 SCOTUS "Arms Ban" Standard
7:25 HELLER: "handguns commonly used"
8:13 200,000 stun guns
9:08 AR-15=super popular
12:37 'Assault Weapon' Term
16:20 Staples v. US
17:55 Semi-auto rifles are COMMON
19:17 'Arms' Ban Legal Standard
20:48 AR rifles popular
22:59 ATF data Proves
24:30 Article I Patents
25:50 Thomas Jefferson in France
27:39 Malum prohibitum v. In aw
30:40 Malum prohibitum gun laws
31:32 'Modern Sporting Rifle' term
35:35 World War II "confiscation" history
39:10 2A Clauses
40:50 "Collective Rights" Theory
42:38 Armed Citizenry
44:48 President Biden's Arguments
47:47 America's Rifle
52:00 Outro
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The American colonists' skills in hunting and target shooting combined with their militia experience to create good marksmen.  David Ramsay, in his History of the American Revolution (1789), wrote of the battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775):

"None of the provincials in this engagement were riflemen, but they were all good marksmen.  The whole of their previous military knowledge had been derived from hunting, and the ordinary amusements of sportsmen.  The dexterity which by long habit they had acquired in hitting beasts, birds, and marks, was fatally applied to the destruction of the British officers." 

Ramsay noted this contrast:  "Europeans, from their being generally unacquainted with fire arms are less easily taught the use of them than Americans, who are from their youth familiar with these instruments of war . . . ."

From Halbrook, The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, pgs. 96-97.
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"Around 1450, a German gunsmith cut spiraled grooves inside a gun barrel to cause the ball to spin, making it far more accurate than a smoothbore barrel.  Such guns were called riffeln (from the German verb for “to cut or groove”). By 1650, this Jäger rifle had a flintlock ignition system. The Germans brought this gun to America, where it was made in Pennsylvania but later dubbed the “Kentucky rifle.” A German proverb went: Ohne Schweffel und Salzpeter gibt’s keine Freiheit! (Without sulfur and saltpeter, there can be no freedom!). Unlike the musket, the rifle had good front and rear sights together with a longer barrel that fired a smaller caliber ball at greater distances."

From Halbrook, America's Rifle: The Case for the AR-15, p. 101.

Photo: John Spitzer - Kentucky Rifle - Walters 511434 - Side A.jpg
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"A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that."  Wisdom from Shane, the main character of the 1953 classic Western movie, Shane.  
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