[Sacajaweau]

IIRC, after the Revolutionary war, soldiers were allowed BY WASHINGTON to keep their weapons.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

Not only did they keep their weapons, but those guns were the ASSAULT WEAPON of their time. How could the “father of our country” have possibly allowed those combat veterans to go back to civilian life fully armed? (just kidding)
Today, the gun may be even more important. A reading or listening of the “media”, tells the sensible that the old Boy Scout motto, “Be Prepared” is still, in these times, valid.

[fella]

"IIRC, after the Revolutionary war, soldiers were allowed BY WASHINGTON to keep their weapons."

At the end of our Civil War Grant and Sherman allowed surrendered Confederate officers to keep their side arms and horses.