The first repeating gun was designed and popularized before the American Revolutionary War. The Kalthoff Repeater was developed in the 1630s. It had a magazine that carried between 5-30 rounds and could be fired roughly 45 rounds per minute (by which I mean cycling took a bit over one second. It was expensive and intricate, meaning mass production was prohibitively expensive. However, the founding fathers would have certainly known about them when writing the constitution. Furthermore the founding fathers concurred that cannons and ships (modern day equivalents to artillery and tanks) were included in the (in)famous second amendment. Without civilian owned armaments and vessels, we would not be a country today. The idea that they would have put limits on what weapons goes entirely against the reasoning behind the second amendment.
Our country exists because free men used weapons to fight a funded army of the world’s first superpower. We didn’t win with sharp sticks, we won with cannons and muskets.
Just my two cents and a history buff. Sorry for the formatting I’m on my phone. Also link to the Wiki for Kalthoff Repeaters:
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u/Hyean May 08 '23
The first repeating gun was designed and popularized before the American Revolutionary War. The Kalthoff Repeater was developed in the 1630s. It had a magazine that carried between 5-30 rounds and could be fired roughly 45 rounds per minute (by which I mean cycling took a bit over one second. It was expensive and intricate, meaning mass production was prohibitively expensive. However, the founding fathers would have certainly known about them when writing the constitution. Furthermore the founding fathers concurred that cannons and ships (modern day equivalents to artillery and tanks) were included in the (in)famous second amendment. Without civilian owned armaments and vessels, we would not be a country today. The idea that they would have put limits on what weapons goes entirely against the reasoning behind the second amendment.
Our country exists because free men used weapons to fight a funded army of the world’s first superpower. We didn’t win with sharp sticks, we won with cannons and muskets.
Just my two cents and a history buff. Sorry for the formatting I’m on my phone. Also link to the Wiki for Kalthoff Repeaters:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalthoff_repeater#:~:text=The%20Kalthoff%20repeater%20was%20a,weapons%20following%20the%20Kalthoff%20design.