[Red in Blue PA]

Cannons were around at the time of the founding of this nation.....pretty powerful weapons. Yet the Founding Fathers did not ban them.

So this articles argument is a fail from the word go.

[piasa]

I was going to say that letters of marque and reprisal were issued to persons owning fully armed sailing ships. That is, people with the best of the best for the time period.

[Big Red Badger]

Cannons were around,
We’re Not Mentioned!