[Vaquero]

you be right....nothing stopping them.

[Kip Russell]

I've seen leftists on message boards such as DU argue with all seriousness that American citizens should be restricted to possessing (and not be allowed to conceal) this:

if they wish to have a handgun.

The "logic" is that a flintlock is what was available when the Constitution was ratified, so any subsequent technological developments aren't protected. Mind you, they're exercising their 1st Amendment rights to say that on the Internet...