When debating the Second Amendment, gun-grabbers will often argue that the founders could have never imagined modern military weapons and they would have never wanted them in the hands of “ordinary people.” But they ignore the fact that Congress actually required every able-bodied man in American to own what at the time were modern military weapons.
The Militia Act of 1792 was one of the very first acts passed by Congress, the law required all able-bodied free men between the ages of 25-45 to serve in the state militia. Further, the act mandated that they provide their own arms and munitions as follows:
A good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder
Within the historical context, the Act of 1792 required the average American man to personally own standard modern military weapons and equipment.
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