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“There’s No Amendment That’s Absolute” – Biden Targets Gun Owners, Uses the Debunked Claim 2nd Amendment Banned Cannon Ownership
Gateway Pundit ^

Posted on 02/03/2022 1:55:49 PM PST by Tench_Coxe

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To: Jeff Chandler
So where exactly does one purchase a cannon. (Asking for a friend)

Tell your friend he can buy one here if he has $75,000 .LOL!

https://historicalarms.com/historical-arms-and-artifacts-museum/civil-war-bronze-cannon-for-sale.html

221 posted on 02/06/2022 4:11:53 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Tench_Coxe

So I guess the days of freeloading foreigners using the 14th Amendment to illegally sneak into the U.S., pump out a kid and automatically become U.S. citizens entitled to living off the backs of the U.S. Taxpayers are over.


222 posted on 02/06/2022 4:28:21 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

So much easier just to make one. :^)


223 posted on 02/06/2022 6:06:41 AM PST by gdc61 (LOL not.)
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To: Intar
A cannon is not an "arm" or "armament" - it is artillery. That distinction was clear at the founding. Besides, carrying around a cannon is impractical and expensive anyway without teams of men and hardware to transport and thus legislating them out of the hands of the individual was unnecessary. The founders understood that an "arm" was a rifle, pistol, sword, or other personal weapon used by an individual militiaman or soldier. Biden is a dangerous idiot.

Statements like that are a "dangerous idiot". Arms have never been defined as solely individually operated personal weapons. Did the Strategic ARMS Reduction Treaty dictate that Russia and these US could only own up to a million M16s/AK47s? Did the Founders not worry about "artillery" because no merchant owned cannon on his ships?

Artillery (and nukes) are armament, by definition. Your slippery slope can easily limit weapons - where is the clear, distinct line between "arms" and "not-arms"? What is a 240B? Those usually operate with a crew - Gunner, AG, and often an additional ammo bearer. Yet a single person can easily operate the weapon system. You say artillery is a no-no, but what about a 230/320 (grenade launcher)? Javelin? M72 or AT4? 60mm Mortars? All of those systems are designed for, or function fine with, a single operator. Do any/some/all of them count as "arms"?
224 posted on 02/06/2022 10:10:45 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

2A bookmark


225 posted on 02/06/2022 10:22:28 AM PST by DocRock
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To: Tench_Coxe

226 posted on 02/06/2022 10:46:18 AM PST by rollo tomasi
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To: dljordan
And the Republicans say NOTHING!

I notice that as well.

227 posted on 02/07/2022 1:05:46 PM PST by hattend
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To: Tench_Coxe

Every person who purchased a weapon which entailed a NICS background check is indelibly documented in FBI files. They never deleted one bit of that data. They won’t admit they have it, so they cannot use it in a court of law, but then they are very adept at getting around courts and laws, aren’t they? Stored in a salt mine in Pennsylvania, waiting for just the right moment.


228 posted on 02/08/2022 12:51:05 AM PST by Segovia
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To: Segovia

How about the 25th? They don’t talk about that one...


229 posted on 02/08/2022 12:52:46 AM PST by Michigan Bowhunter
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To: Jeff Chandler

Because Barry said so... A dictator would try this...


230 posted on 02/09/2022 8:40:44 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Dead Corpse

In the first battle of the Revolutionary War, British Regulars tried to seize the colonial’s arms including several cannons. They were stopped at Lexington and Concord.


231 posted on 02/13/2022 12:05:26 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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