Do you think that the founders would change their position on absolute firearm rights if they saw what sort of weapons are made possible with modern technology?
"Do you think that the founders would change their position on absolute firearm rights if they saw what sort of weapons are made possible with modern technology?"
Now that's a really interesting question, one that I'll gladly take a stab at. My hunch is that they would probably derive something like what we have now (with several urban exceptions): that is, they'd maintain the right of citizens to own firearms, but accept some reasonable restrictions on citizen ownership of far more deadly weapons, e.g., large capacity machine guns, bombs, etc.