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Originally Posted by MotoXcowboy
I believe the 2nd amendment was designed to allow the people, "the militia" the right to bear arms and that right shall not be infringed.
These arms should be of equivalent to our common day weaponry used by the common day rifleman/soldier.
I think our founding father's wanted the people/militias well armed and totally capable of defending ourselves against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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I don't think the founding fathers were envisioning up to 800rds/minute either...
I wonder if a personal land-owner could have legally have had a cannon... I really don't know the answer to that...