re: Gun reform that doesn't violate the 2nd Amendment

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another internet tough guy. I said the ones that you currently have are grandfathered in

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F your grandfathered in clause. We aren't giving you limp wristed regressives an inch.

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When the 2nd Amendment was written, we had muskets for f*cks sake. I doubt the found fathers could scarcely imagine what would happen in today's world.

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TheDCNF found “repeater,” multi-shot rifles from even prior to the Revolutionary period. Further, the research shows that founders and leaders from that time period were starkly aware of innovations in small arms manufacturing and technology.

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An expert in the evolution of small arms flatly disagrees that folks back then “had something much different in mind” when they wrote the Second Amendment.

“[The Founders] lived during the Age of Reason. They celebrated the achievements of the human mind. They had witnessed huge advances in firearms technology — i.e. matchlock giving way to the wheel lock, which, in turn gave way to the flint lock,” William Atwater, a military technology expert and curator at the United States Army Ordnance Museum in Aberdeen, Maryland, told TheDCNF. “Each and every one of these developments were huge in their day.”

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Getting more specific, Thomas Jefferson famously tapped the famous westward explorers Lewis and Clark to explore with a gun that, according to The Washington Post, didn’t exist.

Enter the Girandoni air rifle. The Girandoni air rifle is a repeating rifle capable of firing 22 shots in under a minute without a reload — and Meriwether Lewis’s air gun was one such firearm. Lewis’s rifle was a .46 caliber, magazine-fed repeating gun capable of shooting 22 shots in under a minute.

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Another innovative and powerful gun from centuries ago is the Kalthoff repeater. Originally made by an unknown inventor in the 17th Century, the gun got its name from the family who later produced it, the Kalthoffs.

The Kalthoff repeater is a musket with two magazines: one that holds the bullet balls, the other holds gunpowder. The user pulls on the trigger guard, which puts a charge of powder and a bullet ball into the breech of the gun as well as cock it. To fire the next shot, simply pull the lever guard and let the gun do the rest.

The early version of the gun could hold seven bullet balls, later models could hold 12, according to an article published by Firearms History, Technology & Development. There was even a claim that one Kalthoff could hold 30 bullet balls. Whatever the capacity, it is certainly capable of firing more than “three or possibly four rounds in a minute”

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Then there is the Belton flintlock, which works in a manner similar to a roman candle. Once the fuse is lit, the gun can fire multiple shots in quick succession without need for reload.

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