Americans, and especially gun owners, are now on notice! Some of our Founders, who were Anti-Federalists, knew and foresaw exactly what our current government has turned into, back in 1788. They wrote about it in the Anti-Federalist Paper No. 33 (January 2, 1788).
After the American Revolution, we were governed by the Articles of Confederation, but the Articles had abject failures and it created a weak national government. “The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States’ first constitution. It was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present-day Constitution went into effect.”
But before our current day Constitution was ratified, our Founding Fathers published essays both FOR and AGAINST strengthening a central government, and these essays are known as the Federalist Papers, by those who favored a powerful Central Government, and the Anti-Federalist Papers, by those who feared a powerful Central Government. Basically, they were written debates, and it is Anti-Federalist Paper No. 33 that saw the future.
By Alan Chwick, Joanne D Eisen & Gary Mauser