In 1977, in what is known as the Cincinatti Revolution, the moderates in the NRA lost power and the NRA began to take a much stronger stand against gun control. Since that time, there has been a huge increase in the number of articles in non-peer reviewed law journals favoring the individual rights view. Pro-gun activists call their interpretation of the Second Amemdment "the Standard Model." One thing that we certainly don't see is historians lining up to support this interpretation. Why is this? The job of a historian is to discover and tell the truth about the past. It is not to advocate a certain position in the hopes of influencing public policy. The truth actually does matter to a historian. The term "Standard Model" is misleading since it implies a consesus among scholars which does not exist and this position has received little support from those who are most knowledgeable about American history.