"BAR" wrote in message
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Go back and read about the Massacheusetts ratification convention.

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I fail to see what it has to do with background checks to purchase a
gun in 2013.

Things have changed a bit since 1788 and changes to laws are sometimes
required. For example, I'd like to see a uniform travel law
established for permitted, legal gun owners. There's no Federal law
restricting inter-state travel but each state has it's own set of
rules and reciprocity agreements. I can't travel from MA to SC to
visit my son with a gun in my car without violating the law in several
states. In many ways I think traveling down RT 95 through New York,
New Jersey, and other areas south is probably more dangerous than some
war zones if you happen to be forced to stop in the wrong places.