Posted on 11/30/2023 10:39:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Bkmk
Hell, you don’t need a scary name to get the freedom haters to sign on. It could be named the Disarm Law Abiding Citizens So They Are Helpless Against Criminals and Government Goons Act and they would happily sign on.
What the hell is a “Lethal Capacity Weapon”?
Seems to me that someone trying to write a law to ban something (especially something guaranteed by the Constitution) should at least be generally familiar with the realities of the topic.
So the Cetme and G3 aren’t included?
Actually, hunters and the Minutemen preferred rifles. The Brow Bess smoothbore used by the Redcoats were not accurate at all.
SCOTUS needs to wrap every gun ban in all the courts at all levels into one case and make one ruling on all of them declaring that the Second Amendment means what it says, that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and ALL those laws are unconstitutional. Then citizens ought to be suing the various states and alphabet agencies for denial of rights under the color of law.
Careful what you post.
Rifles were much more expensive than smoothbores. Hunters might find them useful but farmers most likely have a smooth-bore ‘fowler’ which was used pretty much as today’s shotgun.
The military of the time preferred muskets like the Brown Bess because the speed of loading and the resulting rate of fire. The Brown Bess, if pointed at you, would likely hit you at 100 yards and if you and a bunch of your buds were clumped together, kill one of you at three or four hundred yards.
The weakness of the rifle for 18th century warfare was the time it took to load it—two or three minutes as opposed to the 30 seconds to reload the musket. A second weakness of the rifle was the lack of ability to mount a bayonet, a fault shared with the typical fowler at the time.
Later in the war, rifles were used by both sides to great effect, but the musket still ruled the battlefields of the time. My original point was that Massachusetts farmers would be much more likely to have a fowler (or several if they could afford them) as opposed to a military musket or rifle. Rate of fire was king, much more so than long-range accuracy.
Not so blatant that a couple of “justices” wouldn’t support it, though.
The Trip Back to Boston
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That was a Grand Display !
And I thought that Jeff Bingaman was bad…
If it ain’t,
it’s defective.
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