re: #256 EPR-radar
It’s so obvious that the interpretations are driven by political convenience as opposed to any real principles.
For example, at the time the second amendment was drafted, “arms” would have presumably included swords. So under recent SCOTUS cases, there is presumably a damn near absolute right to be armed with a sword in public. Like that will ever happen.
No, there were rifles used in the American Revolution and King George tried/or did (I can’t remember) enact a gunpowder embargo on the American Colonies. Some decree in 1768 (I can’t remember what) was a big impetus for the Revolution.
Firearms were most definitely thought of as “arms” by the founders.