High Capacity Magazines in 1780's

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I always hear that if the Founding Fathers had known about High Capacity Magazines they would have outlawed them. Well, the next time you hear that tell them to google the Lewis and Clark air rifle.

The Founding Fathers held opposing views on a variety of issues, including gun laws. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of them would've sought to restrict or ban weapons like the Girardoni air rifle.......if such guns had been repeatedly used to commit mass murder, killing large numbers of innocent men, women, and children as frequently as has occurred in recent decades.

Some interesting reading which shows how the "right to keep and bear" really was viewed back then:

Gun Control Was the Rule in Colonial & Early America

In 1619, more than a century and a half before the American Revolution, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed a law making the transfer of guns to Native Americans punishable by death. Other laws across the colonies criminalized selling or giving firearms to slaves, indentured servants, Catholics, vagrants and those who refused to swear a loyalty oath to revolutionary forces. Guns could be confiscated or kept in central locations for the defense of the community. And in the late 1700s and early 1800s, states such as New Hampshire and Rhode Island conducted door-to-door arms censuses, acts which today would cause many gun-rights advocates to rise up in revolt and threaten armed retaliation but which were then considered both routine and necessary.

According to gun rights historian Clayton Cramer, concealed carry prohibitions were among the earliest types of gun control laws adopted in the years following the Revolution. The first such law was adopted in Kentucky and Louisiana in 1813, Indiana banned concealed carry in 1820, Tennessee and Virginia in 1838, Alabama in 1839, and Ohio in 1859.

https://riversong.wordpress.com/the-real...amendment/