I'm pretty sure that after the government has been violently overthrown there's really not much validity to what that government considered to be legal. At any

I'm pretty sure that after the government has been violently overthrown there's really not much validity to what that government considered to be legal. At any rate, the right to bear arms is associated with the concept of defending yourself from tyranny. According to some interpretations that's part of the intent of the right to bear arms, part of what it facilitates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Experience_in_America_prior_to_the_U.S._Constitution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_...