Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The meaning of the Second Amendment (One Perspective) [View all]gejohnston
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Yes, that is what marine corps generally were and are. Of course they all had this mission creep thing going over the couple of centuries. Although the Japanese had, not so much with the JSDF, marines they don't have a separate word. They simply used the term "navy infantry".
The southern states could have simply, and may have, made slave patrol members sworn police officers, not having anything to do with a militia. I'm guessing you read the paper written by HCI, when it was called that, board member Carl Bogus and was later rediscovered by Thom Hartmann. There is a good reason Bogus' opus has been ignored in academic circles. Slavery was not unique to the south, nor were slave revolts. NYC had seen its share during the founding period.
In fact, until the late 1960s, the south generally had stricter weapons laws than the rest of the country. Some of them have been repealed, like South Carolina's and Tennessee's handgun bans, and some have been struck down like Georgia's. Texas banned open carry in 1860. Of course, all of those laws, including Florida's ban on open carry in 1893 (passed because white society had issues with the sight of African American migrant workers toting).