04-13-2018, 01:00 AM
His point may have something to do with a well-referenced answer to this and several other posts suggesting that the right to bear arms is esentially a figment of the imagination.
stanc Wrote:Yup. And the Second Militia Act of 1792 specified that the type of weapon militia infantrymen were required to procure and provide was, from 1797 onward, a musket of (IIRC) .69 caliber. Not a short-barrel shotgun, but a full-length musket with provision to attach a bayonet.
All of that has long since been rendered moot, though. In the Militia Act of 1903, the National Guard superseded the old State militias. ARNG members are not only not required to procure and provide their own weapons, they are not even allowed to use privately-purchased weapons.
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