[A] 1631 law in Virginia required citizens to own firearms, to engage in practice with them, and to do so publicly on holy days. It demanded that the people “bring their pieces to the church”… This was the case in Massachusetts in 1644. The state required that “every freeman or other inhabitant of this colony provide for himself and each under him able bear arms a sufficient musket and other serviceable piece” as well as “two pounds of powder and ten pounds of bullets”…Virginia statute forbade anyone to travel unless they were “well armed,” and required that all men working in fields likewise be armed… [More]
Sorry. The great majority of immigrants don’t like that, but you’d never know that if you listened to our “gun rights leaders”…
Wonder what would happen if you listened to this attorney about the evidently still-active Massachusetts “bring your gun to church” law…
[Via Edmund M]
