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So the Green Mountain boys captured ordnance from Fort Ti... not arms?

Yup. Ordnance. Not Arms.

17 posted on 07/16/2004 9:29:24 AM PDT by rjsimmons

Then what about the extremely good point about privateers?

23 posted on 07/16/2004 9:37:04 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)

Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American? The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People.
-- Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb 20, 1788

Do I need to post Barbary Pirate info as well? Or will you accede the point that the Second covers much more than just muskets and calvary sabers?

31 posted on 07/16/2004 9:40:40 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)

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