Re: All or nothing for 2nd amendment


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At the time the Second Amendment was ratified, it - undeniably -
meant the right to have what was the first-rate infantry rifle of the
time, used by the world's top colonial power (Britain) and commonly
owned by individual Americans then alike. It obviously didn't mean
that individual Americans' gun rights were only to guns inferior to
military rifles. That means that the Second Amendment - if construed
logically - means all Americans should have the right to an M-16.


It also meant cannons, ships armed with cannons and even private armed
forces. In the Civil War, many of the units on both sides were privately
financed, uniformed and armed.


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