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How a Maine Businessman Made the AR-15 Into America’s Best-Selling Rifle
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Well regulated meant well supplied, trained and fully manned in the late 1700 when the constitution was written. I’d love to see local armories in every city with with ranges fully stocked with state supplied ammunition and firearms that are available to the public! Having a large healthy industrial base that can support this kind of roll out is key.
https://constitutioncenter.org/images/uploads/news/CNN_Aug_11.pdf
Hell yeah. I’ve often thought of starting a collective for gun ownership that would give people a safe place to store and practice with their fire arms.
Johnson's Dictionary, which was the most prominent English language dictionary at the time of the drafting of the Constitution, defines "regulate" as follows:
To RE'GULATE. v.a. [regula, Lat.]
To adjust by rule or method.
To direct.
Which, in turn, derives from the Latin regulo by way of the past participle regulatus, which significantly predates English and also means to direct or rule. Don't know where this nonsense about not meaning that at the time comes from, "regulated" has meant "subject to rule or direction" as long as it's been a word in English.
I would certainly love to see more well-regulated militias, the National Guard serves that purpose. I'm all for local facilities to stockpile arms and provide training for those well-regulated militias.
The same people who want to use the 1700s definition of 'well regulated' will scream if you use the 1700s definition of a firearm.
Yes that is certainly is the modern definition of regulate. But not at all how it was used when the founders wrote the constitution.
I’ll just place the same link here in case you didn’t read it last time.
https://constitutioncenter.org/images/uploads/news/CNN_Aug_11.pdf
I did in fact read it last time, however your response indicates that you did not read mine, so please take this opportunity to reread my comment. There is a link there that you clearly did not read last time, so please take this opportunity to do so.
Since it seems likely that you will not, I will simplify for your benefit:
Johnson's Dictionary was the main English dictionary when the founders wrote the Constitution.
Dictionaries list the accepted definitions of words at the time those dictionaries were written.
Johnson's Dictionary defines regulate as I have (which makes obvious sense since I copied and pasted my definition from it).
Therefore, the definition I provided was the accepted definition at the time the founders wrote the Constitution (also for thousands of years beforehand since it derives from a minimally altered Latin root).
Q.E.D.
My comment was not about the modern definition, but about how the word was defined in the mid 18th century (which you would know if you looked at the link I provided).
I understand that there is a great deal of gun lobby propaganda which has tried to revise history and pretend that (certain) words had drastically different definitions in the past in order to maximize their market. I understand that propaganda can look very convincing, especially when a great deal of money comes into the equation and even politicians and judges are compromised.
Please use your brain to evaluate claims, even when they're disseminated by CNN.
Lol you're a moron if you think that website was around in the revolutionary days
...um. You do realize that website is a digitization of a physical dictionary which was in fact around in the revolutionary days? If you clicked the link you would be taken to a page which includes a picture of the entry out of the physical book which was in print in revolutionary days.