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Originally Posted by Normal
May I clarify? The first US military was established by congress in Sept 1789. The Bill of Rights was adopted in December of 1791. You can Google it if you wish, but I taught Social Studies for many years in addition to many other hats and I can tell you this for certain.
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I stand corrected. The military was officially established in 1789. And then the government said, in 1791, "hey all you soldiers in this rag-tag army with no actual Armory to house artillery, arms, munitions, uniforms - let's make this easier for ya. Instead of unlawfully carrying them from home to your posts (since carrying a firearm was actually ILLEGAL in public in many places throughout the US at the time), you have federal permission to do so." (though they said it more eloquently, using legal terminology of the time, and so on)