[Bogey78O]

You could own a cannon or a battleship when the Constitution was ratified. Those were the biggest weapons of the age.

[El Gato]

You could own a cannon or a battleship when the Constitution was ratified

Well, not a battleship, those were not invented until the latter half of the 19th century. IIRC, "Old Ironsides", the USS Constitution is a Frigate. She wasn't the biggest warship type of her day, but she was among them.