This is my view of the Second Amendment to The Constitution and so called
intent.
You have to go back in time which is easy to do as everyone has a time
machine built into them, it’s called a mind. So let us go back to 1791 when a
group of men, just having written a constitution, were confronted with
afterthoughts, whether their own or of other citizens.
Among these thoughts was the fact that they had narrowly escaped defeat
by an army equipped with the latest in weaponry, notably the Brown Bess
of the British Army, issued circa 1771 if I’m not mistaken.
Many of the men who rallied to the American cause already had a weapon
for hunting purposes to increase their larder.
Voila!, make it an irretrievable right to have a weapon that could kill a deer
or a man if necessary. But considered what must have been envisaged.
A large bore, single fire weapon that would tax a man to reload in less than
a minute, and that, if I’m not mistaken is intent.
Do you think for a minute they foresaw the Gatling Gun of 1861 or what
passes in our time?, I think not.
Islander.