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As far as the native population was concerned, from the very beginning, with 'rights' often to be read as 'conquests'. The formalization of the right to keep and use guns happened in 1791 when the Second Amendment was adopted.

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They didn't use guns in defense of rights. They fought the revolution to gain rights.

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