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	Podcast:		Radiolab Presents: More Perfect
	Episode:		The Gun Show
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2017-10-11 23:00:00
	Description:		For nearly 200 years of our nation’s history, the Second Amendment was an all-but-forgotten rule about the importance of militias. But in the 1960s and 70s, a movement emerged — led by Black Panthers and a recently-repositioned NRA — that insisted owning a firearm was the right of each and every American. So began a constitutional debate that only the Supreme Court could solve. That didn’t happen until 2008, when a Washington, D.C. security guard named Dick Heller made a compelling case.
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