Gun control advocates are upset over Attorney General John Ashcroft`s declaration last week, outlined in a legal brief before the Supreme Court, that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects an individual`s right to keep and bear arms irrespective of any ties to a state militia. Editorials in the New York Times and the Washington Post denounced Ashcroft as flying in the face of history and legal precedent. In fact, Ashcroft has the law and history on his side.
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