Except it was a smooth bore.
“Except it was a smooth bore.”
Yep. Whenever I hear someone say “well, assult weapons had not been invented when the constitution was written”. The implication being that they would have been banned had they been. I respond by telling them they’re wrong; if our authors of the constitution had intended to stratify gun ownership by technology they had the opportunity to do so by banning the Pennsylvania/Kentucky long rifle. These are the weapons that created the sniper. In fact, the Brits hated them so much that they declared them to be unfair and that they should be banned from the field of battle. So, there you have it.....