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Were individual gun ownership restrictions or even considerations of restrictions ever done in any manner in colonial America? Not that I've ever heard. Which m
by oh_sigh 7y ago
Were individual gun ownership restrictions or even considerations of restrictions ever done in any manner in colonial America? Not that I've ever heard. Which makes me believe the 2nd amendment was not about individual gun ownership as you say.
- jki275 7y agoYes, colonial British subjects had restrictions on ownership of weapons. They had soldiers quartered in their homes. They had taxes without representation. They had their right of free assembly restricted. They had their religious freedoms restricted. The founding fathers wrote the bill of rights specifically to cover these things that British rule had done to the people who left Britain.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoSome colonial Americans had armed ships. "No standing army" is hard to overemphasize; the defenders of the country were merely good citizens rather than a small class of professional full-time soldiers.