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2017-02-25 -Land of the Free
This Week in Guns, February 25th, 2017
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Posted by badanov 2017-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [336068 views ]  Top

#1 $100 rebate on Glocks til 3/17.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-02-25 00:50||   2017-02-25 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Hit tip on the Scorpion. Plastic guns don't do much for me either.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-25 06:04||   2017-02-25 06:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Article 1 - The Legislative Branch
Section 8 - Powers of Congress

Congress shall have the power...

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

Militia Act of 1792 in summary -

Second Militia Act of 1792
Front page of a newspaper announcing the second Militia Act of 1792.

The second Act, passed May 8, 1792, provided for the organization of the state militias. It conscripted every "free able-bodied white male citizen" between the ages of 18 and 45 into a local militia company. (This was later expanded to all males, regardless of race, between the ages of 18 and 54 in 1862.)

Militia members, referred to as "every citizen, so enrolled and notified", "...shall within six months thereafter, provide himself..." with a musket, bayonet and belt, two spare flints, a cartridge box with 24 bullets, and a knapsack. Men owning rifles were required to provide a powder horn, ¼ pound of gunpowder, 20 rifle balls, a shooting pouch, and a knapsack.[5] Some occupations were exempt, such as congressmen, stagecoach drivers, and ferryboatmen.

The militias were divided into "divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies" as the state legislatures would direct.[6] The provisions of the first Act governing the calling up of the militia by the president in case of invasion or obstruction to law enforcement were continued in the second act.[7] Court martial proceedings were authorized by the statute against militia members who disobeyed orders.[8]


In other words, the same weapon as the standing Army was to carry, aka A Military Grade weapon.

Same Militia today as -

10 U.S. Code § 311 - Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia


If they can not get that through their little prejudicial minds to -

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

then they are totally unqualified to remain in the office they occupy.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-25 08:42||   2017-02-25 08:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Lifted from the comments at the embedded link:

So, I can't have a short barreled shotgun, because it has limited military purpose, but I can't have high capacity magazines because they have lots of military purpose. So which is it?

Nailed it.
Posted by DepotGuy  2017-02-25 09:47||   2017-02-25 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Weren't muskets considered weapons of war when the Second Amendment was enacted?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-02-25 13:30||   2017-02-25 13:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Muskets were the weapon of war for the troops which were normally shot with buck and ball (one round ball that fit the bore and three buckshot) fired in a volley. The Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifle was the snipers rifle.
Posted by Glaise Bumble7972 2017-02-25 20:22||   2017-02-25 20:22|| Front Page Top

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