Amid today's heated debates about gun laws and the Second Amendment, what many people may not realize is that the phrase "the right to keep and to bear arms" is older than the Bill of Rights.

That is exactly why the NRA vows to protect and cultivate the Second Amendment guarantee of Americans to “keep and bear arms.” It is an enumerated right that presupposes a viable arms industry ...

In the founders’ era, to “keep” meant to own and possess something inside one’s home, while “bear arms” referred specifically to shouldering a musket or rifle in an army or militia.

Others have maintained that the Second Amendment gives individual people the right to keep and bear arms. This is called the “individual right” theory. Which theory you accept can depend on ...

Iowans voted "yes" for Amendment 1 to change the state's constitution to give citizens a right to keep and bear arms. Ballot measure details Amendment 1 added the following text to the state's ...

Iowa voters have adopted an amendment to the Iowa Constitution to add the right “to keep and bear arms," adding language that goes beyond the protections contained in the U.S. Constitution's ...

PHILIP VAN CLEAVE: It says that a well-regulated militia necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Now, I emphasize that ...

Iowans are voting this election on whether to add the right "to keep and bear arms" to the state's constitution — adding language that would go beyond the protections contained in the U.S ...

The order, titled Protecting Second Amendment Rights, directs the Attorney General to review and address potential infringements on the right to keep and bear arms that may have occurred during ...

The proposed constitutional amendment says: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The sovereign state of Iowa affirms and recognizes this right to be a ...