Thomas Jefferson June 12, 1823. “History may distort truth, and will distort it for a time, by the superior efforts at justification of those who are conscious of needing it most. Nor will the opening scenes of our present government be seen in their true aspect, until the letters of the day, now held in private hoards, shall be broken up and laid open to public view. What a treasure will be found in General Washington's cabinet, when it shall pass into the hands of as candid a friend to truth as he was himself!" This is a primer in Franklin Cryptography. The 2nd amendment was a literary sleight of hand by design and was intended to be final legacy of the US Constitution or the “treasure”. The “private letters” are literal ciphers. History has been distorted. The key to perceiving them is the legitimate context of the 2A.A sociological experiment of Benjamin Franklin’s design which was anticipated to expose itself due to the increasing scrutiny of the 2A. It is a gun control amendment and nothing more.