At least you are sane.
‘Negotiations’ with the ‘crats needs to be done like we ‘negotiated peace’ with the Japanese.
And you are absolutely right, the rules don’t mention anything about ‘checks’.
One other thing.
I don’t think that a single signer was actually a citizen at the time. So disarming ‘residents’ surely wasn’t their plan either.
The language is pretty darned clear - at least to me. And if I remember correctly, some of those ‘resident aliens’ back in the day actually owned BATTLESHIPS. If they had ‘Evil Assault Weapons’ you can bet your nation they would have used them to ‘Great Effect’.
They did indeed. It's also true that darned nearly every cannon in the Colonies was privately owned. And in those days, that was quite a WMD.
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