"Neither owned nor carried a gun."

In case you haven't been keeping up, Bellesiles was roundly discredited, and resigned from his university. His book, "Arming America," made him the toast of the Left for quite a while, though.

"I enclose you a list of the killed, wounded, and captives of the enemy from the commencement of hostilities at Lexington in April, 1775, until November, 1777, since which there has been no event of any consequence... I think that upon the whole it has been about one half the number lost by them, in some instances more, but in others less. This difference is ascribed to our superiority in taking aim when we fire; every soldier in our army having been intimate with his gun from his infancy."

--Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778.