re: #283 Obdicut

In many ways, given the lack of guns in the US at the time of the American Revolution, the 2nd amendment can be seen as calling for increased armament, rather than recognizing an existing gun culture. A very small percentage of Colonial Americans owned a working weapon. It is nothing at all like modern weapon fetishiziation.

Lots of arguments about those numbers. Out on the farms near or in Indian Country? Lots of firearms, though inexpensive trade guns (smooth bore mostly) would predominate on both native and farmer sides.

In New York or Boston? Not so much. Kinda like today.