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[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You say it was forgotten for a century as if people stopped buying guns for 100 years because there was a standing army. If the government wanted to get rid of it in favor of a standing army they would have done that, or at least tried. There's no indication it's a failed amendment because the US needed an army too. And in fact if it was a failed amendment, where was the uproar at the time? I don't really recall any historical fight against that amendment.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It was forgotten. Just like the 3rd amendment was.

People kept buying guns, but everyone sort of assumed (and rightly so) that the government could ban guns.

Hell, the shoot out at the O.K. Corral was over gun control, and the Cowboys gang was clearly in the wrong, and all of them were wanted criminals before the shootout.

But more to the point, the gun ban for Tombstone, Arizona was completely legal.

All of that is while militias still technically existed. After 1903, militias did not. Which is why the National Firearms Act of 1934 was ruled fully constitutional.

And that was the final word on the 2nd amendment until a convicted murderer in partnership with gun manufacturers decided that guns for everyone should be the goal of the NRA.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The NFA was to curtail gang violence when organized crime was near its peak, not to mention the prohibited items on it are still prohibited today. You still need tax stamps for silencers, automatic weapons, short barrel rifles, and anything else the government decided to classify there. I don't know what you think changed legally since then.

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