The guys who wrote the Second Amendment owned every kind of military weapon in existence at that time, up to and including the "weapons of mass destruction" of their day: warships.
Nice diversion, though. Romney thinks semi-auto rifles are too darned scary for sovereign citizens to "be trusted" with.
NO, your kidding. /sarcasm
The guys? You mean the founding fathers? No wonder my friend thought it was really, really young people commenting on FR.
Long, long ago when I first signed up on Free Republic, I read a disagreement between Jim Robinson and Clarity regarding whether people should be able to own tanks, and the latest military equipment, rifles and bombs. Now, I well understand the constitution allows armed militias but I still haven't made up my mind who was right about that one.