[Political Junkie Too]

In Federalist #29, Alexander Hamilton writes:

[I]t will be possible to have an excellent body of well-trained militia, ready to take the field whenever the defense of the State shall require it.

This will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

"Little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms" means that the people were expected to be able to use the same arms as the standing army, and be just as good at using them.

-PJ

[The Mayor]

YES!

[central_va]

105 mm HE rounds are hard to get.