[tpmintx]

Certainly this high-tech weapons system could not have been envisioned by the framers. There is no way they meant for normal citizens to have such a destructive weapon in their possession. </sarc>

[SandRat]

That bolt, from that bow, was the first Armor piercing weapon, and still will go through a police vest.

[SandRat]

That's what they used in the middle ages, dates mid 1500's.

[muawiyah]

Back in the 1400s Joan of Arc figured out that the best way to combat cannon was to fire cannon at cannon. They were using them then to knock holes in city walls during sieges ~ which made city walls totally obsolete!

That was pretty basic high tech, but the Founders knew about just how powerful the earliest firearms technology had been ~ and they thought it was perfectly acceptable for private individuals to own the very best!