The Lost Report - 2nd Amendment 1982

[mnrivrat]

97th Congress
2d Session COMMITTEE PRINT
THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
REPORT
OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

Immediately upon assuming chairmanship of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, I sponsored the report which follows as an effort to study, rather than ignore, the history of the controversy over the right to keep and bear arms. Utilizing the research capabilities of the
Subcommittee on the Constitution, the resources of the Library of Congress, and the assistance of constitutional scholars such as Mary Kaaren Jolly, Steven Halbrook, and David T. Hardy, the subcommittee has managed to uncover information on the right to keep and bear arms which documents quite clearly its status as a major individual right of American citizens

. ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah, Chairman

I, therefore, welcome the effort which led to this report — a report based not only upon the independent research of the subcommittee staff, but also upon full and fair presentation of the cases by all interested groups and individual scholars.

I personally believe that it is necessary for the Congress to amend the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Anyone who believes in the RTKBA NEEDS to read this report. I read many threads here regarding arguments with the anti gun folks. Read this and ask who is better qualified than this commitee to come to conclusions regarding the issue ?

Also ask yourself how 4 members of the Supreme Court could recently ignore this document.

Then ask yourself Why this report has been gathering dust, when there was a clear call to action to amend the Gun Control Act of 1968 to bring it into constitutional compliance.

A simple search should pull up this report for you - if not I will try to do a link.

 

[wcmaas]

The link

http://www.guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html

 

[mnrivrat]

Probably the most important informational document of the last 100 years regarding the 2nd amendment and it looks like it is going to remain lost, with no interest ,even from those that should know its contents by heart.

Or perhaps it just isn't worth the time to comment, or the effort to read .

I tried

 

[Salmoneye]

Saved to my hard drive (not just a 'favorites' link)...

 

[Double Naught Spy]

It is a public record document, hardly lost, forgotten maybe, but not lost.

Not only is this report not lost, you can buy it mainstream for your Kindle, LOL.
http://www.amazon.com/Arms-Report-Subcommittee-Constitution-Committee-ebook/dp/B004QGYUAK

Then there is the print version...
http://www.amazon.com/The-Right-Keep-Bear-Arms/dp/1581602545

Also ask yourself how 4 members of the Supreme Court could recently ignore this document.

Well, since it is a history and opinion document and not a document of law, I can see why they would not be familiar with it. Of course, then there is the whole issue of information overload. The House alone during the 110th Congress, for example, generated 794 committee reports. The Senate created 528. Then there were a smattering of joint and committee reports as well. Probably nobody here is familiar with any of them and probably nobody in the SC is either.

Imagine all the reports generated by committees and subcommittees and then imagine all the special interests represented by those reports and now try to imagine why it is that all those reports that undoubtedly represent some interest groups' perspectives might not be known by the SC or even by most members of Congress.

 

[mljdeckard]

(I still tried REALLY hard to get Hatch bumped out in the primary this year.)