Myth #1: If one has a gun in the home, one is three times more likely to be killed than if there is no gun present.

Reality : Such incidents are rare. Claims ignore citizen firearms used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. '1, '2.

Myth #2: Most homicides are committed by otherwise law-abiding people who end up killing a friend or relative.

Reality :  Most murders occur between criminals who have a demonstrated pattern of violence. '3. '4.

Myth #3: Gun Control has reduced the crime rates in other countries.

Reality :  Crime soaring in Britain. Canada & Japan murder rates soar. Crime rates in England surpass U.S. rates  '6, '5.

Myth #4: Recent gun control laws have reduced the U.S. murder rate.

Reality :  Murder rate was already decreasing. Armed citizens stop far more crime then law enforcement '7.

Myth #5:  Courts have never overturned a gun control law, there is no individual right guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment.

Reality :  Courts use the Second Amendment to strike down gun control, established the Second Amendment as an individual right: Nunn v. State and in re Brickey, U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez (1990), U.S. v. Lopez (1995), Printz v. U.S. (1997) . '8,'9.

Myth #6: The 2nd Amendment Militia is the National Guard.

Reality :  Founding Fathers are clear the Militia is the people. Congress & The Supreme Court  agree. '11, '12, '13, '14, '15, '16.

End Notes:
'1. Dr. Edgar A. Suter, 'Guns in the Medical Literature -- A Failure of Peer Review,' The Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, vol. 83, (March 1994):136 '2. Kleck and Gertz, 'Armed Resistance to Crime,' at 173, 185. '3. Criminal histories of murder victims from the city of Chicago: Matt L. Rodriguez, Superintendent of Police City of Chicago, 1997 Murder Analysis, at 21; 1996 Murder Analysis, at 21; and 1995 Murder Analysis, at 21. In Chicago, 76% of murderers have prior criminal records. Murderers nationwide,  Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Update, (October 1991): 4. '4. Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Update, at 4. '5. Kevin Helliker, 'As Gun Crimes Rise, Britain... Cutting Legal Arsenal,' TheWall Street Journal, 19 April 1994; Clyde H. Farnsworth, 'Tough Gun Control Near Approval in Canada,' The New York Times, 17 October 1991; John E. Woodruff, 'A crime wave alarms Japan, once gun-free,' The Philadelphia Inquirer, 11 July 1992. '6. January 16, 2000 edition  Sunday Times of London. '7. FBI, 'Crime in the United States,' (1996): 58. '8. U.S. Senate, 'The Right to Keep and Bear Arms,' Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, (1982): 8-17. '9. Id., at 12.U.S. Senate, 'The Right to Keep and Bear Arms,' at 9. Also Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man beArmed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (1984): 107-153 ' Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., pt. 3, 2765 (23 May 1866), cited in Halbrook, at 112. ' Cong. Globe, 42d Cong., 1st Sess., pt. 2, Appendix, 84 (31 Mr. 1871), cited in Halbrook, at 146. ' Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., pt. 3, 2939 (4 June 1866)cited in Halbrook, at 113. '10. Public Law 99-308, Sect. 1(b). '11.  Elliot, 3:425. '12. [Richard Henry Lee], Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican, ed. Walter Hartwell  Bennett (Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1978): 124. '13. Militia Act of 1792,  John F. Callan, The Military Laws of the United States (Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1858): 65. '14. U.S. Senate, 'The Right to Keep and Bear Arms,' Report of the Subcommittee on the  Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, (1982):7. '15. Title 10 of the U.S. Code (Sec. 311) '16. U.S. v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939). For more in depth detail visit: http://www.gunowners.org/fs9504.htm,  http://www.jpfo.org & http://www.jpfo.org/L-laws.htm