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To: William Tell

I don’t think possession of firearms are only for sporting purposes. I like to hunt and self-defense is certainly the most important benefit but I don’t know that the founding fathers ever intended for me to have a belt-fed machine gun, artillery, or a .50 caliber rifle.

I don’t think the founding fathers ever anticipated/imagined our population density, social issues, or the outright destructiveness of modern firearms. Everyone had a one shot musket when the constitution was written.

Where do you draw the line?

Should you be able to have a full auto AK-47 for $200? They could easily import millions of them at that price.


102 posted on 04/28/2007 3:03:37 AM PDT by volunbeer (Dear heaven.... we really need President Reagan again!)
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To: volunbeer
volunbeer said: "or the outright destructiveness of modern firearms."

I have read that 85% of those who are shot by a handgun today survive. Prior to the twentieth century, 85% of such people would die, due to lack of antibiotics and modern surgical procedures.

I suggest that you read up on the use of weapons during the American Revolution and the Civil War. Anti-siege techniques included mining under a fortification and blowing it up with tons of gun powder. It also included building towers that would allow red-glowing shot to be launched into a fortification in order to destroy it by fire.

I won't get into the details of what the medical intervention looked like at the typical battle. Suffice it to say that it involved people who could operate a saw quickly.

Furthermore, just what caliber do you imagine a musket was?

103 posted on 04/28/2007 9:39:38 AM PDT by William Tell (RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
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To: volunbeer
volunbeer said: "Should you be able to have a full auto AK-47 for $200? They could easily import millions of them at that price."

If a pressing need arises for the people to have such weapons, where will they come from and what will they cost?

And why must we wait until the need is urgent?

104 posted on 04/28/2007 9:49:54 AM PDT by William Tell (RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
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