>>...every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock...
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>Hey, wait; it is unconstitutional to require a citizen to buy something, isn’t it (health insurance fiasco)?
Two problems with likening the two:
1 — ObamaCare has been attempted to be justified only by the Interstate Commerce clause and demands the purchase of insurance which, ironically, is prohibited from being sold across state lines by federal law; whereas the Constitution specifically mentions arming the militia.
2 — The phrase “provide himself with” means that he could, if sufficiently skilled, manufacture the required items himself.
Or, obtain one from an ambushed, dead Redcoat?
;^)