Wry Catcher
Diamond Member
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- #21
I keep hearing how the Founders never envisioned the modern semi-automatic and automatic rifles and guns.
I wave the Bullshit flag on that.
This is the Puckle. It could fire 63 rounds in 7 minutes and it was invented in 1718.
That's right. 1718.
Joseph Belton invented a gun that could fire 16 - 20 shots in 5 seconds in 1777 and tried to sell it to the Continental Congress, who refused the order because they cost too much.
The sheer, steel-clad beauty of the Puckle notwithstanding, what does a gun invented in 1718 have to do with up-to-the-minute political action? Did some lowlife just threaten to use one or something?
what does a gun invented in 1718 have to do with up-to-the-minute political action?
well the framers didnt pen
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed Except for the Puckle or the
Girardoni
One might suppose the framers never considered a single individual intent on the mass murder of innocents could afford such a weapon or carry it into a theater or one room school house either.
The founders weren't prescient, thus what was no longer is, and much of what is was beyond the imagination of all but a Leonardo da Vinci - not many of them then or now.