There was a lot of concern about slave uprisings and indigenous insurgencies and there were precedents in the laws of individual colonies, such as Virginia's, w

There was a lot of concern about slave uprisings and indigenous insurgencies and there were precedents in the laws of individual colonies, such as Virginia's, where white men were required to own guns for these purposes. Since armed Choctaw rebellions and plantation slave uprisings are of course still a very legitimate concern buying assault rifles at the gun store should be a sacrosanct holy right. We certainly don't want another Haitian revolution on our hands.