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“This award is well-earned,” said Michael Barnes, President of Handgun Control and the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence. “Professor Bellesiles has produced a work of unquestionable historical and societal merit. The National Rifle Association and its allies rely on a mythology about guns and the Second Amendment because they have few legitimate, rational arguments. By exposing the truth about gun ownership in early America, Michael Bellesiles has removed one more weapon in the gun lobby’s arsenal of fallacies against common-sense gun laws.”
Bancroft Prize Committee, c/o The Office of the University Librarian,
Columbia University
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