THE DAILY FUDD: E10: "An Originalist fudd-ish argument regarding full-auto and 2A."
"I should be able to have full-auto!" says a local "card-carrying member of the Libertarian Party" radio host. He argues against the current legal restrictions on "machine guns"--a position popular with some in the Second Amendment (2A) community, but politically a non-starter with most of the general population. To the former, it's simply a matter of "rights." To dissenters from this position, it's also a matter of reality and impact (we'll see that word come up often here). In this issue of THE DAILY FUDD, I will explain the matter. ------------------ To understand our modern Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA), we must look at that right in the whole context of our Anglo Common Law tradition. The truth is, such a right was never construed as extending beyond what we'd call today, "small arms." Not cannon, not catapults or trebuchets, and not bombs or chemicals. The 1688/89 English Bill of Rights' provision on the ...