High Capacity Magazines in 1780's

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Yup, there were low life people back then as today who believe in, slavery, repression, centralized authority and gun control. Luckily our founding fathers made it law that the right to own and bear arms is a Constitutional right.

Heh, heh. It amuses me when folks today talk about the Founding Fathers as if they were unanimous in their positions on issues. Actually, they were as divided then as politicians are today.

Many of the Founding Fathers were what you call "low life" people, who owned slaves, denied women the right to vote, condoned sex with children, wanted a powerful federal government, and considered the RKBA to be for collective (not individual) defense.

I still have not read any historical documents of any movement at that time period for banning the assault rifle of the 1800's the 16 shot Henry rifle.

I'd say that's because there was not the epidemic of mass shootings like those of the last few decades. Change the timeline in http://timelines.latimes.com/deadliest-s...-rampages/ to the late-1800s, and the weapon types to Henry rifles, and the odds are that such bans would've been enacted.

Shoot, there were gun control laws even in towns of the Wild West, as shown by the sign on Front Street of Dodge City, 1878: