1. 2 man earthquake!! Hell yea.

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2. http://www.newbostonhistoricalsociety.com/cannon.html

   It’s worth pointing out that a lot of cannons used in the Revolutionary War were private property, and that in that time there were gunsmiths specializing in the making and sale of cannons to individuals. (For more on that, see “Firearms ownership & Manufacturing in early America” by Clayton Cramer, also worth reading as an excellent debunking of the infamous Bellesiles fiction.)

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   1. Cool story on the “Molly Stark” cannon. South Jersey has a cannon with a similar story. Unfortunately they don’t fire it.

      https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=58280

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3. Letters of marque are in the Constitution. What is a letter of marque? In historical times, piracy was a capital offence, punishable by summary execution. By granting a letter of marque, a government is essentially saying that a private ship captain are not pirates, but are raiding a nation’s shipping as an extension of the granting government’s policy. In other words, privateers.

   Letters of marque are written with the name of the captain and a description of his vessel. Vessels at the time of the Constitution’s writing were described by the number and size of guns mounted on it. (“his vessel, a 74 gun”- meaning a ship mounting 74 carriage mounted guns)

   Why is this important? It means that the founders KNEW that private citizens not only owned artillery, but mounted them on ships, so as to own warships. This also destroys the argument that if the founders had known about the effectiveness of the AR15 ,they would have outlawed it. A 10 pound gun firing cannister would have been able to kill or wound dozens of massed infantry with a single round.

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   1. Indeed. For that matter, if you read the debates during ratification that prompted the addition of the 2nd Amendment, it is entirely clear that the concern was government trampling on liberty, and the need to assure that the people would have arms adequate to preventing that. As the Miller decision reaffirmed, “military grade” weapons are PRECISELY those the 2nd Amendment intends to protect and keep in our hands.

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4. For when the first “get off my lawn” doesn’t work.

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   1. Get off my zip code! 😀

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5. There are, in fact, people out there who believe that cannon should be legal but 11 round magazines should not. I’ve met them.

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