Word: bearing
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...constitutional right to bear arms will be infringed...
N.R.A. is fond of quoting the second half of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, but not the first. The full amendment reads: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." Consistently, federal courts have interpreted the Second Amendment as referring to a collective right, not an individual privilege. The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1939 that the amendment expressly concerns "the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia." Nevertheless, the major gun magazines endlessly celebrate...
...Monmouth County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is contesting a provision that makes membership in a "subversive" organization grounds for denying an I.D. card or a purchase permit. In the other, the law is being questioned on the grounds that it abridges the right to bear arms and interferes with interstate commerce...
...consistent if bizarre pattern over several months Ray had appropriated four aliases from Torontonians, all from men who live around the suburb of Scarborough and bear varying degrees of likeness to Ray. In July 1967, Ray took the name of Warehouse Supervisor Eric St. Vincent Gait, 54, whose signature he had apparently misread as Eric Starvo Gait. As does Ray, Gait has scars on his forehead and right palm and could pass for 40, Ray's age. John Willard, 42, the name used by the man who rented the room in Memphis 13 paces away from the bathroom where...
Ever since Napoleon drove them from Malta in 1798 in order to use it as a way station for his invasion of Egypt, the Knights of Malta have not been allowed to return to the island whose name they bear. Last week Malta welcomed back its knights, who are members of the Roman Catholic Church's oldest chivalric order. To the crash of a 21-gun salute, a delegation of knights in regal red and black uniforms and feather-plumed helmets, led by Grand Master Fra Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, a Milanese nobleman, landed at the Maltese capital...