Dear Kendall: Your right to keep and bear arms does not come from the congress, a gun lobby or the constitution. Your right to keep and bear arms is one of the inalienable rights with which you were "endowed by your creator" etc. The constitution does not give you the right; is takes it as axiomatic that the right is yours and forbids government from infringing it. Would that our elected officials today read the simple text of the document they have sworn to protect and defend. MarkS