Slaves required permission from their masters to bear arms; Are modern American citizens slaves to the government requiring special dispensation to exercise our freedom?

"No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another."

-- A Bill Concerning Slaves
Source: [1785], reproduced in Alfred Fried, Ed., The Essential Jefferson (Collier Books, 1963), p. 140.

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