A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Question for the commenters: why is developing a nuclear weapon illegal? Isn’t it an arm? What about NDAs? Don’t they infringe on the 1st Amendment?
At the time the Ammendment was cast, there was no such thing as a cartridge.
It could be argued that this new invention is well outside the scope of what the founding fathers had in mind.
Okay, class; who can name anything that would fit the definition of “Arms” that George Washington would have recognized?
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flintlocks.
Cap and powder,
There was EVEN a revolver based rifle.
Knives, swords, and large latex ducks..
Why a duck we’ll never know.
“At the time the Ammendment was cast, there was no such thing as a cartridge.”
At the time the Ammendment was cast, there was no such thing as a radio, or a television, or the internet.
t could be argued that this new invention is well outside the scope of what the founding fathers had in mind.
Okay, class; who can name anything that would fit the definition of “Press” that George Washington would have recognized?
The Founding Fathers recognized this: when we need to throw off a government, and replace it with one that would secure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we would need to have arms, and the skill to use them, equal to or greater than the arms used by the army we’ll be fighting.
During the Revolutionary War, many militia members had arms better than those of the British Army.