<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . The specific problem is: it is disjointed, one source is poor quality, the other is poorly used Please help improve this section if you can . (April 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> With the Civil War ending, the question of the rights of freed slaves to carry arms and to belong to militia came to the attention of the federal courts . In response to the problems freed slaves faced in the Southern states, the Fourteenth Amendment was drafted . </P> <P> When the Fourteenth Amendment was drafted, Representative John A. Bingham of Ohio used the Court's own phrase "privileges and immunities of citizens" to include the first Eight Amendments of the Bill of Rights under its protection and guard these rights against state legislation . </P> <P> The debate in the Congress on the Fourteenth Amendment after the Civil War also concentrated on what the Southern States were doing to harm the newly freed slaves . One particular concern was the disarming of former slaves . </P>

History of gun control in the united states