Do you think our founding fathers would have looked at an assault rifle that can fire at a speed of 400 rounds a minute and said: “Oh yeah, that’s a good thing to have around the house”? Or “Everybody should have one”?
The uninformed author is describing a fully automatic weapon, which is already not legal to own.
Me thinks the author would be horrified to know that our founding fathers had to LEASE warships during the revolutionary war from PRIVATE OWNERS.... in other words, if a man had the money and desire to have a warship, he could order it and have it built... the same for cannon... The idea of the second amendment is to have the citizenry capable of and legally allowed to possess, the same weapons our military has.. this includes ships, planes, tanks, cannon and “machine guns” ... this is to allow the citizenry to overthrow a government gone rogue.....but, the libs can’t have THAT now, can they?
the “author” also forgets muskets were seen that way in those centuries.
The pope even once argued for arms control regarding CROSSBOWS!
They are very expensive to purchase and required special permits, but fully-automatic weapons are legal to own.