Posted by oldtanker on August 28, 2018 at 11:28:06 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: Shooting in Florida posted by welding man on August 27, 2018 at 16:38:21:
[quote="L.Fure"](quoted from post at 18:25:11 08/27/18) Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see
Boy talk about modifying history.
You do know that way back when the 2nd Amendment was first add to the constitution that our founding father knew that civilians had legal access to every weapon the military did? And in fact they had access to better weapons. The Army was still using the same smooth bore musket they used fighting the Brits. Had an accurate range of about 50 yards. 75 if you got a real good one. Militias that formed to fight the Brits were largely equipped with the Pennsylvania Long Rifle that had an accurate range of 200 yards. Plus civilians could by cannons and anything else the army had. Both the North and South marched off to war with muzzle loading rifles when by the time the Civil War started the repeating rifle had been in civilian hands for 5 or 6 years. When Custer died at Little Big Horn his troops were equipped with single shot rifles (breech loading) while a lot of the Indians had level guns. Not only was Custer out numbered he was out gunned too. Around 1905 auto loading rifles were in civilian hands yet the US military when to war in 1917 with bolt guns. Even the AR platform rifle was in civilian hands by 1956, converted to 223/5.56 (AR15) in 1959 and finally adopted by the US military in 1963 as the M16.
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