I find it hard to believe the the 2nd Amendment is exclusively for national defense

[Nuclear Unicorn]

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What with such little recoil & bumpfire capability, an ar15 bushmaster can fire over 100 rds per minute, not near automatic fire of ~600/min of an m16, but limited more by the magazine size. You generally cannot do that with larger caliber semi-auto rifles.

So what? What does that have to do with the fact that the people are the first, best keepers of their personal freedoms and the entirety of the BoR is designed to that end?

while heller 2008 was a political decision, pandering to a rightwing republican base & an assiduous & insidious gun lobby.

If everyone were allowed to disregard whatever USSC decision they did not approve of based on their personal, unilateral declarations there would be no system of resolving political debates. What 5-4 USSC decisions favoring liberal policies will conservatives be allowed to disregard since they were obviously politically motivated?

the tench coxe citation in 1788 wouldn't show that the 2ndA has fallen into oblivion today. See if you can figure out why, with the clues I've given.

I don't play silly games. State your argument outright.