[joe fonebone]

The second amendment was written to allow the citizens to overthrow a government gone rogue.
With that in mind, any weapons that our military possesses, we not only have the right, but the duty to possess.
This includes so called assault weapons, machine guns, grenades, mortars and rockets.
If you can afford it howitzers, tanks, aircraft and even warships.

It may surprise people to know that our fledgling country leased cannon and warships from private owners.

We had more rights under the crown than we do today.

[marktwain]

U.S. v. Miller was used to prevent challenges to the NFA of 1938. While Miller clearly implied that military arms were protected by the Second Amendment, FDR appointed judges ruled it did not.

In Cases v. United States, 1942, a three-judge panel on the First Circuit ruled it was unlikely Miller meant military arms were protected by the Second Amendment: From Cases:

Another objection to the rule of the Miller case as a full and general statement is that according to it Congress would be prevented by the Second Amendment from regulating the possession or use by private persons not present or prospective members of any military unit, of distinctly military arms, such as machine guns, trench mortars, anti-tank or anti-aircraft guns, even though under the circumstances surrounding such possession or use it would be inconceivable that a private person could have any legitimate reason for having such a weapon. It seems to us unlikely that the framers of the Amendment intended any such result.

The judges did not want military arms protected, so they ruled they were not protected.

[David Treibs]

Can you document the leasing of privately owned weapons?