NRANews — November 15, 2009 — Charlton Heston discusses passing on the legacy of the Second Amendment. In this spellbinding performance, the NRA past president challenges Americans to keep freedom's flame alight from generation to generation. Delivered with unedited authenticity reflecting a deep love for his nation, Mr. Heston's eloquent message radiates truth as it lights the American way.

1. "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."~ Alexander Hamilton
2. "No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."~ Thomas Jefferson
3. "We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights." ~Felix Frankfurter
4. "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." ~Elmer Davis

And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.