Posted on 04/07/2018 4:57:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
First the gun-control zealots insisted that the right to bear arms, the second of ten delineated individual rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights was not an individual right. Then, when the U.S. Supreme Court said in Heller Vs. D.C. (2008) that it was in fact an individual right, the argument was that the ruling only applied to the federal enclave known as the District of Columbia. When the Supreme Court in MacDonald vs. Chicago said it was indeed a national right, the argument turned to “sensible restrictions” such as arguing the Founding Fathers did not anticipate semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Well, neither did they anticipate the Internet, social media, and blogs when they protected free speech and the press in the First Amendment. True, some freedoms are not absolute, such as yelling “fire” in the proverbial crowded theatre, but as regards the Second Amendment one fact is paramount. When it was written the both the government and the people had the same weapon -- the musket -- which could be called the semi-automatic weapon of its day. The Second Amendment did not come with an asterisk nor is any of our rights enshrined in the Constitution in any way dependent on technology.
Yet U.S. District Judge William Young perceived a qualifying asterisk when he dismissed a case challenging the Massachusetts ban on so-called “assault” weapons and high-capacity magazines:
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Naw.
He would have owned an AR-10 or M-14. George would have loved the selective fire option!
Uhmmmm....maybe I don’t understand what you are trying to say but, your post is whack...jack.
And you can read some other posts on this thread as well.
George Washington would have executed the FBI, CIA, DOJ and various other criminal bureaucrats as traitors.
The authors of the constitution did not exclude artillery from private ownership
Every smart man does now.
Mine is good for reaching out and touching someone.
Accuracy at longer distance is good.
Identifying your target at that range is VERY good!
So folks; keep your DRONE batteries charged and ready to spy upon your enemy!
Zactuhmundo...
I agree. George is definitely an M1A kind of guy. Maybe an AR-10.
Ever shot one? They hit whatever you mean to hit. It is pretty, too.
Read a novel years ago about a group of soldiers transported back in time to the Civil War, by accident all they brought were AK47 rifles.
Then after awhile they managed the Confederate gunsmithing to make copies, which of course was easy to do for an AK with two notable exceptions, the difficulty of chroming the rifled barrel and making smokeless powder.
But they managed to make fully automatic rifles that worked and defeated the North. They required a lot of cleaning and smoked like a dragon but because of its simple design it worked.
They did NOT aspire to any AR platform.
So in summary i would really only think of whats the most effective rifle that can be made for that time period.
Kinda makes you go hmmm....
What if all the Revolution soldiers had was nothing more than a copy of the 870 Remington shotgun? Even with the then available black powder shells with different loads could be produced, as long as primers were made.
Disagree.
M16 or M4 and an RPG launcher with plenty of ammo.
I qualified expert at Parris Island with an M14. There are more accurate AR’s in .308.
The M14/M1A1 seems to understand what we are trying to hit. That sight picture comes with a certain amount of magic and the rifle does shoot true. There are many like it, but only this one is mine...
So is the 1911 pistol. Both still work as intended.
I’ll see your Iowa and raise you an Eisenhower.
The musket also had a relatively higher rate of fire given the ease of ramming a ball down a smooth tube as opposed to a rifled bore. Well drilled British (or for that matter Colonial) troops could sustain a steady rate of massed forward fire in close ranks allow a closure of distance with the enemy preceding a bayonet charge, or in a holding action allowing a flanking attack by cavalry or reserve infantry.
My name is based on the fact I love the RevWar. I’ve been a bit of an amateur aficionado of it for a couple decades now. Old books, new books, reenactments, battle sites and member of the Monmouth Friends and Brandywine friends and made a nice donation to save Paoli ambush site.
When you study this for a while you get a feel for reality. My words are not “whack”. I’m not a specialist historian but I’ve experienced quite a bit more than the average American.
The other reply gave another good point about the rifling making it hard to load. Indeed, maybe 1 shot per minute for a good loader, while a musketman might get off 3.
I just like those old Battleships like the Iowa, New Jersey.
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