Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
If you want to be a strict literalist about the 2nd Amendment, the "arms" the authors were writing about were front-loaded single shot muskets. There is no mention of anything more complex or capable of mass murder. No cannons. No mortars. No mines. No bombs. So the 2nd Amendment says individual free men have the right to bear single-shot front-loading muskets. Sounds good to me.
I could actually live with that. smile

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