Read Feinstein's bill ... then say that with a straight face
Josh. The discussion should not be about banning weapons of any
sort but about Congress LACKING any authority to do such a thing
because Congress was forbidden to infringe upon the right to
keep and bear arms equivalent to those of the military. The
Second Amendment was placed in the Bill of Rights because the
delegates to the Ratification Conventions DEMANDED them as a
pre-condition to ratification. The Founders told the worried
citizens who had just fought a war and were concerned about this
new government treating citizens as King George did that the new
government had LIMITED POWERS and had no power to do ANY of the
acts the Bill of Rights forbid any government authority over.
The firearms under discussion are the very type of arms that the
founders had in mind, arms equivalent to those carried by
American or Foreign soldiers. Tench Coxe of Pennsylvania even
indicated in his statement that the founders anticipated
technological advances because