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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
I don't have a problem with the right to "bear arms". When the 2nd amendment was written "arms" were single shot. I would be fine with single-shot arms. I have a problem with 30 round magazines.
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Um….
I have discovered,” Belton wrote to Congress on April 11, 1777, “an improvement, in the use of Small Armes, wherein a common small arm, may be maid to discharge eight balls one after another, in eight, five or three seconds of time.”
And Washington agreed to it. In May 1777, he authorized Belton to make 100 of his rapid-fire muskets — but the plan fell apart before it even began, when Belton asked for what was deemed “unreasonable compensation” for his work.
Belton Flintlock: One of the first semi-automatic weapons may have been invented by a friend of Ben Franklin - On top of Philly news
You can also google the “knock volley gun”
Does the 2nd Amendment only apply to the quill and scroll? Because the type writer, laptop and twitter weren’t invented in 1776.