Wyantry wrote:
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C’mon Krak! Semiautomatic firearms existed (and were in use) prior to 1770. The founders and writers of the Constitution knew full-well the potential for technological advancement.
By your [Warped] reasoning, you should have to communicate only with feather-pen and inkwell.
No computer,
No internet,
No wireless phones,
No radio, no telephones,
No television,
No cameras, (No Hedgehog Forum).
No electricity,
No cars, busses, trucks, trains or planes.
No propane,
No solar cells,
No wind generators.
All newspaper, magazines and books printed on a manually operated single-page printing press and delivered by horse-post.
That might be the “idyllic” lifestyle you and H. D. Thoreau promote. It does not work well for most people.
A return to eighteenth century technology is COMPLETELY impossible.
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Wyant, you're full of it. Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher produced the first successful design for a semi-automatic rifle in 1885, and by the early 20th century, many manufacturers had introduced semi-automatic shotguns, rifles and pistols.(Wikipedia) How in the world would the founders of the Constitution know this. I know, they were all seers. They were able to "see" technology development 2-3 hundred years into the future. It's just a matter of slight extrapolation to go from Gutenberg (printing press 1440AD) to semiautomatic rifles (1885) to IBM computers (1981). Right Wyant?