THIS is what firearms looked like when the 2nd Amendment was written ...

[Confusious]

151. Saying "you seem to be stuck on internet searches and wikipedia"

Is like saying "you seem to be stuck on facts." Uh, yea, and the "fact" that you have a problem with it means you're obviously bullshitting.

As far as the founders, I never said they "looked back" all the time. They did to a certain extent. The english civil wars, the greeks, the protestant reformation, they also looked forward somewhat. (WTF is with you gun freaks and "all or nothing?&quot

But to say that they could look forward and see the guns of today is a superman sized leap. The people who used the maxim machine gun in the 18th century couldn't see the slaughter on the battlefield of world war I. They all thought it would be over in month.

Einstein, the most intelligent man of the 20th century, thought quantum theory was bullshit. Even the most intelligent can't read the future.
"Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice." - Albert Einstein

You want me to believe they were some sort of supermen who could could see 150 years into the future to see the assault weapons of today. Even 100 years to see the maxim machine gun?

Yea, right. Do you have a great offer from Nigeria I can't pass up?



PS.
The 16th and 17th centuries had just as many big inventions as many as the 18th, yet you keep wanting to say there was "so much change."
As I pointed out, it took 65 years for the steam engine to become something marginally useful.
"understanding" electricity, that would have to be the 19th century again.

your search words were pretty lame BTW