In particular, the court explained, “the text of the Second Amendment is limited to only certain arms, and history and tradition demonstrate that particularly ‘dangerous’ weapons are unprotected.” Id. at 18. “Because assault weapons are particularly dangerous weapons and high-capacity magazines are particularly dangerous weapon accessories, their regulation accords with history and tradition.” [More]
So it was the Founders’ contention that only “safe” arms were “necessary to the security of a free State”?
[Via Jess]
I read this analogy somewhere (SSI?) a long time ago: ‘A well educated electorate, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed.’ Now, according to the libtards, this would mean only books from the founding era could be read by already well-educated voters! Really? No sane person would believe that.
That comes from the late J. Neil Schulman’s “The Unabridged Second Amendment,” where he had the linguistic logic confirmed by Prof. Roy Copperud, “a newspaper writer on major dailies for over three decades before embarking on a a distinguished 17-year career teaching journalism at USC. Since 1952, Copperud has been writing a column dealing with the professional aspects of journalism for Editor and Publisher, a weekly magazine focusing on the journalism field. He’s on the usage panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and Merriam Webster’s Usage Dictionary frequently cites him as an expert. Copperud’s fifth book on usage, American Usage and Style: The Consensus, has been in continuous print from Van Nostrand Reinhold since 1981, and is the winner of the Association of American Publisher’s Humanities Award.”
Someone should sit these state government misfits down and explain to them about the Girondoni rifle, avaiable to anyon with the cash to pay for it, during the period of the start of our War fr independace from Britain.WHY you ask? That rifle had a magazine holding FORTY rounds, and all of them could be fired, each by a single pull of the trigger, until the magazine was empty. The rate of fire was phenomenal for the time.. about one round per second, the operator had to do nothing other than pull the trigger one more tme. The common brown BEss or Musket of the day took the average Brit solider close to two minutes to reloadm in half of which time the owner of the Girandoni couild easily fire all forty rounds before teking time to reload.
This was in existance and availble to any and all buyers before the day of Lexington and Cincoird, 19th April 1775.
Wat did Bruen have to say about such things?
but these creeps don’t care, they put dw anything that comes to theor twsted minds to “justify” taking away our protection and security. A pox on the lot of them.
For the sake of accuracy-the Girondoni air rifle was not semi-auto. You had to push a horizontal bar (containing the chamber) a couple of inches back-and-forth to load a .40 cal. ball from the 20 round, side-mounted (in line with the barrel) magazine into the chamber and then return it to line-up with the barrel AND cock the hammer for every shot. Still, SOFA-KING AWESOME !!! The main reason for the success of Lewis & Clark (in my opinion) , so Thomas Jefferson definitely knew about it.