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To: Balding_Eagle

Probably rifles and pistols, and their future analogues, would be what the Founders had in mind for individual possession, with field pieces and their equivalents being held in local Armories. So today that would translate to lawful ownership of basically everything (to include automatic rifles) at a scale below explosive devices such as grenades, mortars, missiles, artillery and up. What more would be needed to mount a successful insurgency by the bulk of the populace against a tyrannical government?


19 posted on 10/30/2017 11:11:23 AM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: Trod Upon

If my history is correct, the colonies needed the privately owned warships to win the revolution.

Someday, we may need the same size of weapons.


20 posted on 10/30/2017 1:08:40 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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