From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 06:25:35 +0800
To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: The Right to Keep and Bear Crypto
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No. And No.  This argument will never fly in any court.

If you want to see why, go to my homepage

http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin

and search for the (fictional!)  "really pro-Clipper court decision". 
Then find the section trashing this argument.  (sorry I can't give a
better pointer but I'm not at work today). 

On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Steve Schear wrote:

> A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State,
> the right of the people
>  to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
>                                  --Constitution of the United States of America,
>                                  Amendment II, 1791
> 
> I'm not a consitiutional scholar, but it seems to me that since the
> government has already classed crypto as arms via ITAR and since the I am
> guaranteed the right to bear arms I choose to bear the crypto of my choice
> as part of my arsonal.
> 
[etc.]

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