Removed by Graybeard. I will NOT have such drivel posted on this site. If you are that antigun you should do your posting among those of like mind.
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GB..thanks for being alert ! The only rifles I have which hold as many as 10 rounds are a couple .22 LRs. That doesn't mean I don't want my neighbor to own an AR15 that holds 20 rounds... That's HIS business, not mine. (except,People's Republik of NY requires that none contain more than 10 rounds)
The Right to Keep & bear Arms..
HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SQUIRREL HUNTING !!
The 2nd amendment was placed to prevent the possibility of a tyrannical government arising. Federalist Paper #29 lays out the case.
When James Madison presented it, he spoke clearly of the reasoning of the founding fathers;
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More Evidence Supporting an Individual Right After James Madison's Bill of Rights was submitted to Congress,
Tench Coxe (see also:
Tench Coxe and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 1787-1823) published his "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution," in the Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 He asserts that it's the people (as individuals) with arms, who serve as the ultimate check on government:
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms. ... ...And there was no journalist in all the colonies who disputed Madison's conclusions..
