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Old 07-22-2022, 10:25 PM
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I’m guessing the founding fathers considered arms the things that are attached to the shoulders and have hands on the other ends. You know, the things one uses to hold their firearms, golf clubs, pickle ball racquets, and stuff like that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-the-founders/

This goes into it.

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. As with all things constitutional, Americans are adapting 18th-century laws to fit 21st-century lives. But in reality, the concerns of the Founding Fathers had little to do with either side’s position in the modern gun-control debate. None of the issues animating that debate — from “stand your ground” laws to assault weapons bans — entered into the Founders’ thinking.