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

[Justin Fellenz]

Well, gosh, whichever of you is correct, it seems like I should have no
worries about carrying a concealed horse-drawn cannon with me without a
permit. The problem would be the poop down your leg I guess. Or, for
visual on-the-street horsepower, my Hoyt is hard to beat. And no poop.

But the cannon. Now, that's a cool idea. Anyone tried making one? A big
one, I mean? My lathe bed is, oh, 9 feet long and I can spin about 14".
I wonder if the bed would flx under the weight...I guess you'd have to
rig up some rollers to carry it. And how would you bore something that
long? Get it close with a long (flexy) boring bar and then clean it up
with a button?

Justin.
--- Ralph Douglass <douglass at ptdcs2.ra.intel.com> wrote:

> 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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