Posted on 03/12/2018 10:27:53 PM PDT by FrankLea
Interesting on the subject
https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/07/charles-willson-peales-riffle-with-a-tellescope-to-it/
Better in Black Bean Garlic Sauce!
As I’ve stated elsewhere on this forum, the 2nd Amendment isn’t because we were worried about the deer getting out of control.
Mussel loader? Another idiot who knows nothing.
“I agree full auto has no place in the civilian world.”
Author tells us upfront that they are an idiot.
It’s all fun and games until somebody busts a bivalve in your a... err, backside, lol.
At the minimum, the citizen should be armed at the level of the “personal weapon” of the “standing army”!
Defensive weapons, all of them, serve a purpose. That purpose is to defend against those who will do one harm... using the left’s “assault weapon” makes their case before our side even starts.
Unbelievable! 22-yr-old Storm Durham tells us about getting fired for having a CCW permit!
Stop gunsplaining... you are just trying to negate his clams.
Step 1: Enforce existing laws.
Step 2: Punish lawbreakers, up to and including, death penalty.
Step 3: Repeat until the stupid %#*+ get the message that crime doesn’t pay.
Reloads at a snails pace.
The "used by the military" test was applied by SCOTUS in the 1939 Miller case. If a short barrel shotgun was of a type used by the military, not only could the feds not ban it, possession could not even be taxed.
In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment, or that its use could contribute to the common defense. Aymette v. State, 2 Humphreys (Tenn.) 154, 158.Scalia used rank intellectual dishonesty to turn this case on its head when he composed Heller. Under the new test, and unconstitutional restiction becomes constitutional if the courts ignore the issue for long enough. Long standing unconstitution bans become constitutional because they are long standing.
Between Mussel loaders and clips, Mr Ward lost me in the first two paragraphs.
I believe at the very least, a citizen should be able to arm himself with the standard military rifle or its equivalent of the current day.
The author is incorrect on full automatic. Once you start parsing out weaponry, the argument for being a vanguard against tyranny hollows. We are either an armed citienzry able to put down invasions and tyrants, or not. You know the invaders or tyrants will have full auto.
Mussel loaders were the earliest foray into the development of WWII Flak Guns.
In the 1700s, shards of fired mussel shells would take out anything flying overhead!
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Exactly
It uses the dreaded 50 cal clam sabot.
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