Many had held on to their wartime firearms and resisted the neo-Confederate government’s demand to disarm. They fought back as white state militias and paramilitary organizations worked closely with local governments to seize their weapons.64 Black people asserted, in publications such as The Christian Recorder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and The Loyal Georgian, that they had Second Amendment rights and that stripping them of their guns was denying them the right to self-defense.
White politicians violated the 2nd amendment stripping former Black Civil War Soldiers of their weapons. The NRA nor the Republican party will ever acknowledge these facts to prove their point of how the government will come for their weapons.
