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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Snag"  wrote in message news:vdfgjh$2egfn$1@dont-email.me...   
      
      What you are ignoring is the INTENT behind the 2nd Amendment . The   
   intent was for the people to be armed equally with the military . And in   
   fact more than a few of the cannons used in the Revolutionary War were   
   privately owned ... so ANY limitation of private ownership of armaments   
   - be it cannons , bombs , full auto rifles or whatever - is technically   
   unconstitutional . If I wanted any of these I'd have it whether the   
   gov't liked it or not .   
   Snag   
      
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   Thomas Jefferson owned high capacity military-issue assault rifles, so the   
   Founding Fathers definitely knew of their possibility.   
   https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/op-ed-thomas-jefferson%E2%80%99s   
   %E2%80%9Cassault-rifle%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-girardoni-air-rifle   
      
   Lewis and Clark carried one and demonstrated it to dissuade hostile attacks.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girardoni_air_rifle   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI   
      
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