"Without Strong Governments and Effective Laws, They Believed, Liberty Inevitably Degenerated Into Licentiousness and Eventually Anarchy"

"I have been researching and writing about the history of gun regulation and the Second Amendment for the past two decades. When I began this research, most people assumed that regulation was a relatively recent phenomenon, something associated with the rise of big government in the modern era. Actually, while the founding generation certainly esteemed the idea of an armed population, they were also ardent supporters of gun regulations."

Saul Cornell at The Conversation discusses "Five types of gun laws the Founding Fathers loved."