[ctdonath2]

Those were the norms of the day. They were using what their opponents were using, not taking on then-modern arms with blunderbusses and clubs. Today, would-be opponents have AK47s and M16s - do you seriously want "your side" to take them on with Brown Bess?

[R. Scott]

… do you seriously want "your side" to take them on with Brown Bess?

Hardly. My point is that at the time the 2nd Amendment was written the sporting arm was superior to the military arm in lethality.

[brazzaville]

Good evening.

If a musket is all the statists have left me it will have to do until I can get something more appropriate.

In the novel "Unintended Consequences" John Ross describes how Jews in Warsaw used an old revolver to kill Nazi soldiers. They would take the dead soldier's weapon and pass the revolver on to someone else to repeat the process.

That might not have been necessary had the citizens owned and been competent in the use of modern military arms. That is what the Second Amendment is all about.

Michael Frazier