Originally posted by oxmixmudd
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Ignoring for the moment that your logic means the 1st amendment shouldn't protect free speech beyond anyone using an old fashioned printing press, there were numerous guns available at the time that allowed rapid fire, multiple-round capacity. The Ferguson rifle was literally used in the Revolutionary War and was a breechloading flintlock that could fire 7 rounds a minute.
the girandoni air rifle existed within 2 years of the revolution, and provided rapid fire from a 19 round magazine.
the belton flintlock was a rapid fire gun that existed around the same time.
well before the revolution, the Puckle Gun was invented. On shipping manifests when it was transported, it was called a machine gun (IIRC the first use of that term).
So please, spare us this tired nonsense that the founders didn't understand that technology advances and that they only knew about single fire muskets.
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