[wku man]

"I think your idea of freedom is actually unrestricted license and that is not a Constitutional guarantee. As Belial pointed out when do we allow the general public to own "shoulder-held SAM launchers"?"

Here we go again. "Do you think we should all be able to own nukes? What about MOABs?" Sigh...

There's no rational person in the RKBA community that says we should be able to own NBC weapons, or shoulder-fired missiles. The purpose of the 2d Amendment is that the citizenry will always have the right to militia weapons, with which to resist any tyrannical government that comes down the pike. Militia weapons are individual arms, like the Brown Bess musket in 1775 (don't forget, today is Patriots' Day...228 years to the day saince Captain Parker and his militia fired the Shot Heard Round the World), and the M16 today. They are wepons with which the individual minuteman could stand a chance of defending his life, liberty and property from the schemes of a tyrant, and his army.

I would like to discuss with you my thoughts on how such a hypothetical revolutionary force would come into more advanced weapons such as air-to-air missiles and tanks, but that would be feeding the rabid anti-gun monster that has been prowling these threads for the last week. Suffice to say that we in the RKBA community recognize that the 2d Amendment doesn't give us the right to go duck hunting with a Stinger missile, or fishing with grenades.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[philman_36]

...or fishing with grenades.
No, no, no...you dynamite the fish and grenade the enemy. {;^)
(just making light of the whole thing...gotta laugh so ya don't cry?)

[ThirstyMan]

There's no rational person in the RKBA community that says we should be able to own NBC weapons, or shoulder-fired missiles. The purpose of the 2d Amendment is that the citizenry will always have the right to militia weapons, with which to resist any tyrannical government that comes down the pike.

I hear and appreciate your distinction. In our militarized age of cruise missiles, Bradley tanks B2 bombers and F series fighter jets what kind of resitance are you going to offer at your doorstep with an automatic weapon? By the time you get to use it the war is over.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I can and I have made shoulder fired missiles in my workshop.
When I move to a new place where there is more room to play, I will make them again.

I can make them steerable to some degree, but not yet real "smart" ones.

Even Stalin let Kytushin play with his rockets.