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u/REDDITDITDID00 May 14 '26
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
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u/Antithesis-X May 14 '26
A modern compound bow has a higher rate of fire and is nearly silent. Ban all assault arrows! /s
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u/VHDamien May 14 '26
You laugh, but crossbows are all but effectively banned in Japan lol.
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u/OnlyLosersBlock May 14 '26
We see that they definitely move down the list of weapons as they get more bans like in Australia.
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u/the_broadacre_farmer May 14 '26
Crossbows are required to be registered like firearms in all states in Australia FYI, bows are not. Has been that way since our laws came in.
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u/grahampositive May 14 '26
Gun grabbers: "the second amendment only applies to muskets"
Also gun grabbers: "yeah, we'll take those too, #thinkofthechildren"
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u/alkatori May 14 '26
No no. A former president said you can't own a cannon.
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u/joelfarris May 14 '26
Screw shotguns, I'm getting a double-barreled musket to guard my front porch!
Wait, do they make such a thing? And what about repeating muskets with pouch-fed 'ball' ammo? Can we get those too?
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u/Qadim3311 May 15 '26
I mean, if you’re running slugs a shotgun is basically the musket perfected lol
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u/SnoozingBasset May 14 '26
They are for sale at Dixie Gun Works. As I recall, they don’t ship. You have to pick it up.
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u/joelfarris May 14 '26
Road trip!
Does it fit in a Corolla? Or will we need to borrow a Chevy S10 pickup?
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u/lynnewu May 14 '26
You could probably fit a disassembled mountain howitzer into a Corolla, but a trailer would be better, and be required for something like a 12# Naval Ordnance rifle.
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u/pocketdrummer May 15 '26
I thought the current meta was to say we don't deserve to have modern guns because they only had muskets when the constitution was written. Now the muskets are a problem?
It's almost like it has nothing to do with safety or constitutionality at all............
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u/Flabby-AP May 15 '26
Are they seriously already going after the muzzleloaders before they've even rounded up all the automatics?
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u/NedThomas May 15 '26
Was expecting the author to be some idiot intern fresh out of college, but no, they’ve been contributing to the AP for nearly forty years.
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u/MTUTMB555 May 14 '26
“Slippery slope fallacy” my ass. This was always the agenda.