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https://twitter.com/BraddrofliT/status/1534751163773423616?t=JzEuQR7KA6B1zjgOeU6BYg&s=19
iDrawStuff
The real question is does it cover trebuchets?
DeepBlueNothing
Likely also includes cannons, wouldn't mind owning one of those for the times my neighbors are partying loudly at 3am.
RetrogradeLlama
The "Textualists" want to tweak their opinion on the "intent of the Founders" factor.
EccentricNut
Suppose they invent some kind of phased laser disrupter in the future. Does the 2nd amendment automatically give you the right to own it?
rcgom
he means 'fixed cartridge ammunition' & 'muzzle loader' & he's omitting field pieces, rockets, the puckle gun & likely a host of others.
KaraokeLemur
Considering early 30-shot repeaters predate the amendment by more than a century... And let's not even go to repeating crossbows.
aNamelessCreature
I hate this assumption that the founding fathers, smart people in military service, couldn't imagine that weapons tech would advance.
aNamelessCreature
You can argue they couldn't have foreseen the plane, radio or nuke, but that a gun might one day shoot more rapidly and accurately? Really?
TMccl
I need a Puckle Gun for home defense
AlmightyThor117
Tally ho, you rapscallion!
EdmondAlmond
With that logic the first amendment doesnt cover freedom of speech on radio, movies, television, internet and so on... strange, it does tho.
assortedletters
yeah, weird how that works.
Thresholdpush
Indeed. "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." The advent of efficient weaponry should have been the trigger for new legislation.
YouAlreadyMutedMe
Well the internet was invented 50 years ago, so if you want free speech get a wood box and go scream in the town square.
EvilKrikkit
Thank you. There it is. That's why this argument is fucking stupid.
Shifuede
I mean, if you want to get technical, melee weapons are arms too. Even muskets aren't explicitly covered.
DameDePiques
*enters school with plate armor, broadsword and morningstar*
IcouldntfindmymedsthismorningsoItookyours
And yet it’s more difficult to get certain blades in some states than it is to get weapons of war. Because the blades are highly regulated.
Shifuede
Hexrowe
I guess by "bullet" he means metallic cartridges...?
MostlyMicrographs
I think he is referring to the first conical bullet, instead of round musket balls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%C3%A9_ball
Hexrowe
Oh, right! Yeah, probably that. My derp.
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gman003
1847 was the debut of the Minie Ball, the first widespread non-spherical bullet, though earlier conical bullets were made in the 1820s.
IOftenWearClothing
I assume they mean 'bullet' as in the complete assembly of projectile, primer, propellant, and casing. Before that you assembled each shot.
gman003
Close, but that was Flobert in 1845. 1847 introduced the Minie Ball, which wasn't the first such bullet but was the first successful one.
gman003
So that's my guess as to what the tweet references. Not 100% accurate but to fit in a tweet, some imprecision is tolerable.
sumelar
...musket used bullets. Holy fuck people are stupid.
IcouldntfindmymedsthismorningsoItookyours
Muskets of the 1700s used round ball shot. Not bullets. Bullets are hammer fired. Muskets use black powder.
sumelar
It's still a bullet. You, and the OP, are confusing bullets for cartridges. The type of powder is meaningless.
KaraokeLemur
Lack of knowledge, or intellectual dishonesty? With "library of Alexandria" in almost everyone's pockets it's easy to suspect the latter.
KaraokeLemur
Guess where the word "bullet" comes from. And no, bullets have nothing to do with hammers.
IcouldntfindmymedsthismorningsoItookyours
Bullets are literally cartridge ammunition. Which didn’t exist in the 1700s.
KaraokeLemur
Bullet comes from the French word meaning "little ball". And are not "cartridge ammunition".
IcouldntfindmymedsthismorningsoItookyours
So what? That doesn’t change when the bullet was invented, what a bullet actually is or what kind of ammunition was fired from a musket.