One of the common criticisms of the Second Amendment that we hear is that the Founding Fathers couldn’t imagine assault rifles at the time of muskets.
The rate of fire is too high and that is why we should give up our Constitutional rights.
One anti gun group even put out a video to the effect a while back.
Well one of Miguel’s posts had got me thinking.
Compare these two videos.
Here is a Marine marksman and some reenactors demonstrating the accuracy of 18th century smooth bore muskets.
Slow aimed fire failed to get a hit on a man size target at 50 yards. Volley fire at best saw impacts on a group of stationary targets with two-thirds of the rounds fired.
Now see this.
I chose that start point for a reason. That was a one shot, dead in its tracts hit on a white tail at 955 yards.
Just because I feel like scaring that shit out of some New Yorkers, that is 20 yards more than the width of Central Park from Park Avenue West to 5th Avenue.
Forget semi autos and rapid fire, could our Founding Fathers have predicted hunters (who the anti gunners say are the reason for the Second Amendment) having weapons that could get single shot kills on distances exceeding the range of field artillery?
The average Remington 700 or 783 is a 1-1.5 MOA gun with good ammo. They are capable of keep hits in the vitsls on man size targets to at least 400 yards. Heavy barrel and rifling options push that even further.
A single pay check for most middle class Americans could build a hunting rifle and optic combo capable of 800 yards.
What holds most people back from that is practice and a place to push it.
If the idea of post 18th century technology superceding the Second Amendment is really an argument they want to pursue, they lost that 100 years ago.
The fact is if they really believed that all gun owners are a threat to them, they should be a lot more afraid than they already are.
Don’t worry- they’re coming for those guns too… but we know that already.
Of course, they’re going to have to get within 400 yards to *take* those weapons…
The Constitution allows for the issuance of letters of marque and reprisal. To take advantage of either one, you would need an armed sailing ship — the pinnacle of military technology of the day.
If they really want to push the argument that the Bill of Rights only applies to 18th century technology, then I expect President Trump to shut down CNN, NPR, Gizmodo, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, because the 1st Amendment only applies to manual printing presses. And unless they can prove that there were abortions performed with vaccuums in the 18th century, well, Planned Parenthood is going to be back in the market for hangars.
Not to mention that half the religions active in the USA today didn’t exist in 1789…
I have pointed out numerous times over the past month- for the user, an AR platform rifle works EXACTLY like Great Grandfathers Remington Model 8, introduced in 1906. One trigger pull, one shot, the firearm reloads itself and is ready to fire again, as fast as the trigger can be pulled. It had available 25 and 25 round after market boxmagazines. One other thing- chambered for .30 Remington, 35 Remington and .300 Savage, it’s 50-70% more powerful than the AR shooting the 5.56mm.
This outcry is the modern application of the Josh Sugarman “Demonize Black Rifles” Plan, propelled forward by the Rahm Emmanuel “Never let a crisis go to waste” operatives of the LeftistProgressive Marxist Anti-Trump proto-fascists with the propaganda parroted by the willfully ignorant. Paid for by George Soros and Michael Bloomberg.
The irony is unnoticed- when some Progressive/Marxist speaks of “Kill the NRA”, and then explains in an unguarded moment on TwitterWorld that it is not just rhetoric, they really mean to be rid of us and it means literally imprisoning and killing NRA members , it’s hard not to contemplate that NRA members have guns- how do they propose to bring this Death Camp fantasy to fruition?
Another interesting note- a news item states that the ruling Mullahs in Iran think the Second Amendment should be abolished.
The HoggJugend , their enablers and the ayatollahs stand together- that’s all anyone should need to know.
They are afraid. They’re afraid that a very vocal bunch of their constituents have gone bat shit crazy and actually want them to really do something as opposed to their standard virtue signalling in election years.
If you’ll remember, not that too long ago, there was the proggie outcry concerning ‘deadly sniper rifles’ that needed the ban treatment.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20050309/hunting-rifle-banbrintroduced-asbrsn
http://jpfo.org/articles-assd04/ban-accurate-rifles.htm
They are still trying to ban almost everything. There is the Cicilline bill in the House (“Assault Weapons Ban of 2018”). Look it up. I just skimmed some parts. Fun items like: (1) a Mauser Broomhandle pistol is now an “assault weapon”. (2) Threaded barrels now make something an assault weapon. (3) Assault weapons may not be possessed (“in or affecting interstate commerce”, an absurd phrase inserted to attempt to make the illegal seem constitutional) — there is no grandfather clause except for retired law enforcement. Yes… retired cops may possess “evil black guns”, but not retired military.
At that range even a musket would not have missed the guy. It could have been loaded with buckshot too. Let us also not forget that no regular would have stopped to reload their weapon there. They would have started using their bayonet. As I recall most casualties were due to the bayonet charges after the volleys were done. Also, any soldier that had enough money would have carried additional weapons such as swords, tomahawks, knives, or a brace of pistols.
Did our founding fathers envision computers,cell phone,facebook and twitter???? Maybe we should get rid of the 1st too. Dig out an NRA magizine from 30 years ago-you will find the same tired arguments..they want to repeal the 2nd, whats stopping them? This whole thing is exposing thecleft for the vicious sick people they really are. Heres a thought for leftys- mind your own bidness before you get a fist in the face..
200 000 went to the big march last week….in 20 years of NICS checks 282 MILLION 816 THOUSAND NICS checks….good luck with that. Wake up gun owners, we out number em, start acting like it.