[TheForge] OT, but I Just have to ask...

[Ralph Douglass]

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> 
> Or, technically no.
> 
> Since the Constitution became the law of the land in 1789 (?), ONLY
> arms that existed then would apply.  Flintlock and matchlock
> muzzle-loaders.  Maybe a cannon drawn by horses.  Bows, crossbows, no
> composite materials or compound actions...
> 
> Two can play the semantics game.
This is true. But I ask where exactly does it say in the Constition that
only the things at the time of the signing or ratification are allowed?
Otherwise we have about 37 states too many.

Ralph
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