Re: "[T]he right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited."

"Snag"  wrote in message news:vdfgjh$2egfn$1@dont-email.me...
   What you are ignoring is the INTENT behind the 2nd Amendment . The
intent was for the people to be armed equally with the military . And in
fact more than a few of the cannons used in the Revolutionary War were
privately owned ... so ANY limitation of private ownership of armaments
- be it cannons , bombs , full auto rifles or whatever - is technically
unconstitutional . If I wanted any of these I'd have it whether the
gov't liked it or not .
Snag
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Thomas Jefferson owned high capacity military-issue assault rifles, so the Founding Fathers definitely knew of their possibility.
https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/op-ed-thomas-jefferson%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cassault-rifle%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-girardoni-air-rifle
Lewis and Clark carried one and demonstrated it to dissuade hostile attacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girardoni_air_rifle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI