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Were Guns Scarce in Early America?
US Government Sanctions Harvard Prof. for Falsifying Research
Ruggiero is not alone in the doghouse of academic fraud. Recently other well known university professors have had the basis of their careers exposed. Harvard's Michael Bellesiles' research for his best selling Arming America: The Origins of the National Gun Culture claiming a low number of gun owners in colonial America has been exposed as simply fabricated.
Anti-Gunners Expose True Agenda After Ninth Circuit Ruling By Jeff Johnson CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief December 09, 2002
Joe Waldron, executive director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), raised questions about the "research" used to reach that conclusion.
"This ruling even relies on material from Michael Bellesiles, the anti-gun historian whose research has been so discredited that he was forced to resign from Emory University," Waldron noted.
The first footnote in the opinion references Bellesiles' book "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture," which argued that Americans possessed few firearms prior to the Civil War, and those that existed were under strict government control. An independent panel of academic investigators found contained "prima facie evidence of scholarly misconduct." Bellesiles resigned his position at the university, allegedly to avoid being fired.
Calif. ruling called gun-control landmark
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court ruling upholding California's ban on assault rifles was being portrayed Friday as a landmark in the constitutional debate over the right to bear arms.