Besides there's always beer.

Besides, I thought 'happiness is a warm gun'?

JK.

In this group there is the free exchange of ideas about the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

I don't know why I am not issued a military battle rifle with ammunition. It seems like a deficiency in the operation of our Government.

What is your solution to this problem?

you have to buy your own religious texts and support your own house of worship.

Why is the word right bracketed by parentheses in your post?

rights to arm.

But they knew that if the govt was responsible for arming the people, they could just as easily DISarm them (by NOT providing the guns).

They figured it was better, & even mandatory, for the people to provide their own arms (and accoutrements).
Which of course worked well with the Constitutional articulations which secured the right for the people to keep (& bear) them.

Constitutionally, the people should have no issues providing themselves with militia-capable arms (and accoutrements) at reasonable cost. Unfortunately that s not always the case these days.

As I recall reading somewhere (too lazy to research this) that it was a law - a law - in our early history for each man to have a gun, certain amount of powder and balls (No, not that type). However, it was generally ignored and the law just passed into history.

"every free able-bodied white male" and "severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia"- if this is the basis for the 2nd, it does seem to strongly suggest that "militia" meant something different than today's loose interpretation of the word. Would like to see some of our gun bearers today "when called out to exercise or into service, except, that when called out on company days to exercise only".
Also interesting that they would be exempted from suits, distresses, and even the payment of taxes.

Those State entities were well-understood, and pre-existed the Constitution for decades. They were required by the Articles of Confederation, and "inherited" into the new govt organization.

Not until LBJ, et al, was the Constitution de jure extended to all people. One of the better summations of both Ante Bellum and Jim Crow era laws which prohibited RKBA for blacks was the friend of the court brief in the Heller decision, submitted by Georgia Carry. It surveyed the many laws, state constitutional amendments, and ordinances designed to restrict blacks from owning guns. It seems white Southen state governments well remembered the slave revolts, esp. the Stono Rebellion (1739) when slaves escaped a South Carolina plantation. First stop: A general store for guns.

With a citizen's militia, well armed and trained, for the purpose of national defense. It would be an opt out, not opt in arrangement. Of course, such a thing would entail disentangling from all our imperial adventures.

I tend to think that is what the Founders intended.

Hence the creation of the National Guard, a federal entity more like the select militia envisioned by Hamilton, instead of the ones articulated by the early congress and militia acts.

The need for a large federal army with the ability to conduct a sustained invasion into hostile territory did a lot of the chipping away. By the early 20th century the modern national guard system we have today was put in place.

No thanks, I'll buy top quality personal safety devices.


Now on to the real question.....Why the 18th birthday?

And you can hear echoes of this argument whenever anybody proposes a tax on weapons from Trump folks who object to paying taxes, and who feel that having to pay taxes is a violation of their constitutional rights.

Goofy, that is.

As for taxes, we already pay them on weapons and ammo etc., just like any most other goods. As long as they're not anything crazy like some suggest.


Not sure why trump folk feel guns should be exempt, as well as free...is it part of the whole "its my right" thing??

They want to be part of a traditional Organized Militia, they'd have a bit more of an argument...maybe.

Is it they don't want to pay ANY taxes?? Yet they want free stuff? Weird.

which went to the general fund until 1937
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittman%E2%80%93Robertson_Federal_Aid_in_Wildlife_Restoration_Act