This is a well-cited, well-researched piece of scholarship from Duke Law on what the Founding Fathers meant by the right to keep and especially to bear arms. It may or may not help in your arguments with hysterical gun-grabbers as they are not bound by facts, logic or the lessons of history, but nonetheless, a good reference to keep on file...
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi...30&context=lcp
