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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last time I checked the right to keep and bear arms was a right not a privilege.   But as the long as the dems keep wasting their time on these foolish pursuits the less real damage they will do.  [/quote]

I’m a Textualist and the 2nd Amendment says nothing about “ammunition.” You infer that “arms” includes ammunition, but that’s not what the text says. The Framers could have included that language, but they chose not to.

And you might rightly say - “What’s the point of stating ‘arms’ if you don’t infer the right to ammunition?”

Well, look to the “well regulated militia” portion of the 2nd Amendment. The ammunition of the militia is often kept separate from the arms maintained by the individual. You retrieve ammo from the depot at the direction of a commanding officer. Sounds like a “well regulated militia” to me.

In short, you can’t be a Textualist and read a right to ammo in the 2nd Amendment. It doesn’t exist. [/quote]

As a Textualist, you should understand that 2A then gets referred to the Militia Act of 1792, which defines exactly what it is that is protected.   And where it comes to ammunition, it says:

"That every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder; and shall appear so armed, accoutred and provided, when called out to exercise or into service, except, that when called out on company days to exercise only, he may appear without a knapsack. That the commissioned Officers shall severally be armed with a sword or hanger, and espontoon; and that from and after five years from the passing of this Act, all muskets from arming the militia as is herein required, shall be of bores sufficient for balls of the eighteenth part of a pound; and every citizen so enrolled, and providing himself with the arms, ammunition and accoutrements, required as aforesaid, shall hold the same exempted from all suits, distresses, executions or sales, for debt or for the payment of taxes."

20 rounds is enough, according to the people who wrote the 2nd Amendment.  Can't claim you can't afford that when you already spend that much and more on your kitted-out AR-15s.[/quote]

24 cartridges, 20 balls, quarter pound of powder.   That's all the ammunition the Founding Fathers said you needed.[/quote]

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