Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "" video.

  1. Besides the intent of the Constitution; the reality was that private arms frequently were more cutting edge than those of the US Government. Captured Ferguson breech loading rifles stayed in private arms long after the Revolutionary War. Most backwoods men and frontier dwellers continued to use rifled muskets while the Government continued to arm the army with smooth bore muskets. Percussion cap muskets and minnie ball (actually conical projectiles which expanded to take riflings) were in civilian use before the US military. As late as the Civil War the Union still used some smooth one muskets; while several workable breechloaders and early cartridge firing rifles existed (few in troops hands). Early magazine fed arms started showing up in the military but were dropped soon after the war with singles hot breech loaders replacing them. While the US military continued with single shoot breech loaders until the 1890s, magazine feed repeaters were in widespread civilian use. The first semiautomatic rifles were civilian. Submachine guns were commonly available until the early 1930s; when they were largely banned because a few got widespread publicity because of criminal use. Then as now, appearing to do something was more important than doing something. The difference was that law enforcement was told to end those gangs one way or another; Ma Bsrker's gang, Baby Face Nelson, Dillenger to name a few were either killed or surrendered, and no tears were shed over the deaths; and they killed far fewer than today's drug gangs. The point is that at no point in history until the 1930s was it considered wrong for the public to own weapons as modern or more modern than those of the police or army. That is the true enforcement of the 2nd Amendment. Oh, by the way. In New York, the original motivational firearms laws was to disarm the opponent party's poll watchers of firearms while keeping Tammany Hall's armed, I will let you check out who Tammany Hall represented one hint it wasn't Republicans.
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