[stoney]

You're most welcome. I can't begin to tell you how may hours went into researching this. I also have another gun control fact sheet on the same homepage. You go to the link and click "index", the click "fact sheets". I hope you find it useful.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I can't begin to tell you how may hours went into researching this. I also have another gun control fact sheet on the same homepage."

Actually, I can. A few years back, I got a "bee in the bonnet" to look up the same info, figuring that the state constitutions/bills of rights that were contemporaneous with or predated the Federal constitution would shed some light on the real meaning of the Second Amendment. I found some of the same info you did (but not all of it), and it DID take a LOT of searching. Your compilation will make an excellent reference source.