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    Civil Rights Act of 1871
    (1871)
    Discussion of the law and amendments in Congress used by the Court in DC v Heller to further instruct on the "well-known constitutional provision guaranteeing the right of the citizen to 'keep and bear arms,' and provides that whoever shall take away, by force or violence, r by threats and intimidation, the arms and weapons which any person may have for his defense, shall be deemed guilty of larceny of the same."