To: muir_redwoods
I am unaware of any bans on types of firearms at that time.
“The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon...” —Joe Biden, top of his class at law school.
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13 posted on
01/14/2023 9:11:49 AM PST by
hanamizu
To: hanamizu
Sure you could, provided you had the scratch. Some early militias had privately-purchased cannon, and any privateers operating under Congressional authorization had to outfit their own ships.
21 posted on
01/14/2023 11:45:22 AM PST by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
To: hanamizu
You couldn’t buy a cannon...”
—Joe Biden, top of his class at law school.
24 posted on
01/16/2023 11:40:17 AM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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