So I wanted to do a little research on the second amendment, when it was written and what life was like back than including the firearms. I found out the most sophisticated gun was a repeating air rifle. It could hold 40 balls, was rifled and could put a 1 inch hole in a 1 inch piece of pine a hundred yards away. Shortly after the second amendment was written Lewis an Clark had 1 of these rifles on their expedition. It is believed that the Indians did not wipe them out because they weren't sure how many of these rifles the party was carrying.
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