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Comment by:
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(10/22/2015)
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The "Common Use" definition has its own problems. After all, if it had been applied since 1789, when the Constitution was adopted, we might still be limited to single-shot, muzzle loaders. Even though more advanced technologies were available, they weren't the prevalent firearm in use by civilians.
"Common Use" should be clarified, to include those arms in common use in military service, as noted in the US v Miller decision. We'd then have access to automatic weapons, select fire weapons, short barrel rifles, and a whole host of other, man-portable, arms.
Let's not forget the Constitutional provision for "letters of marque", which are meaningless without ships of war and their associated heavy arms. |
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As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms. — Tench Coxe in `Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution' under the Pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at 2 col. 1. |
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