BTW: When my grandfather was a child in NEWARK NEW JERSEY, you could go into the local Kresge's and buy a .38 or a 12 gauge quite easily. This all changed thanks to the influx of folks from Moscow on the Hudson after WWII, who, like Rudy, have ZERO clue as to the REAL meaning of the second amendment: to allow us to defend ourselves from a tyrannical government. I trust myself and my Glock over a bald Eurostatist who thinks the second amendment is about hunting.
"...the REAL meaning of the second amendment: to allow us to defend ourselves from a tyrannical government." What crap. Militias were barely able to defend themselves against Indians much less a modern military. And there is no "well-regulated" militia today.
The Second says precisely why it exists "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state...". It was not ratified to protect the people from themselves who are the power behind a representative government. It also reflected the common fear of a standing army which was a anachronism derived from looking at the European historical experience of absolutism. Our republic was established to remove the source of those fears.