all you had to say is I don't know. give me specifics
semp
No, I don't have to say "I don't know", because I do know.
I gave you three specific examples of federal law. You chose to ignore them. I was not even remotely surprised.
Read the writings and correspondence of the various Founding Fathers, Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Adams, to name a select few, and you will understand easily that they meant the 2nd Amendment to be taken absolutely literally, and that private citizens were free to own military grade weapons, and without exceptions for type. Private citizens of the period owned artillery, warships, and every form of firearm deployed by any branch of the U.S. military of the period. And yes, there were various forms of self loading firearms capable of firing multiple rounds, and firing repeatedly. The authors of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were fully cognizant of those facts, and intended the citizens own them. In fact, many of the Founding Fathers were diametrically opposed to the United States having a standing army, and the only reason they didn't oppose a standing Navy was that they knew that having to buy or build ships and train sailors would be impossible to do in a timely fashion should the need arise. They fully expected the citizens to form the military, with firearms the citizens owned and provided.
