8 Jun 2022 9:52 pm
Jefferson never owned an AR-15.golfboy » 08 Jun 2022, 9:42 pm » wrote: ↑I guess you learned nothing from Iraq and Afghanistan, did you?Misty » 08 Jun 2022, 9:39 pm » wrote: ↑ You really think an AR-15 is going to save you from the government if they decide to take you out?
Back in GW's day they had muskets, not AR-15s.
BTW, Jefferson owned what today would be classified as an "assault weapon".
Large caliber, magazine fed, capable of firing 22 rounds a minute.
Jefferson wrote the 2nd Amendment. You believe he would outlaw his own guns?
Maybe you need to reread the SCOTUS Heller decision.
Especially this part:
Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited.
It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any
manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, con-
cealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment
or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast
doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by
felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of fire-
arms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or
laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of
arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those
“in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition
of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.