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In reply to the discussion: New bill could force states to allow visiting gun owners to pack heat without a permit [View all]Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)It is NOT one example. One can't pick and choose what sections to apply, the entire context applies.
The notion that the 2nd amendment would require one to own a semi automatic tactical sporting rifle, much less a fully automatic hand held machine gun is ridiculous beyond belief - they had no concept of what either of those was at the time the Constitution was written. And don't try to trot out that canard about the Swiss air rifle -a rifle that needs to be elevated to a vertical position to reload is no more a semi-automatic weapon that a lever action rifle. An "arm" at that time was single shot, muzzle loaded or a air rifle that was "repeating", but required so much skill to use and maintain that it was not practical. There was simply no contemporary technology that allowed a shot to be fired with a trigger pull, then another shot with nothing more than another trigger pull. That technology did not exist, except maybe in the wet dreams of a scifi gun enthuiast. One may as well argue that current firearm laws are written to consider 30 megawatt, continuous fire palm blasters capable of slicing a skyscraper in two.