If somebody criticizes what the Attorney General has to say, they are going to have to go back and confront in their own mind the fact that Samuel Adams proposed a right to keep and bear arms provision that was clearly individual. They will have to face all the other references that were quoted from the framers that made it clear that this was an individual right. This is not simply his opinion. This is what the framers intended. Stephen Halbrook
Constitutional scholar on a letter from U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft