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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This is exactly what we learned in college political science.  When the 2nd amendment was written, the government issued ammunition to the militia as needed.  You had the gun, the government decided when you could have bullets.

Let’s limit how many bullets you can buy in a year and tax the hell out of them. [/quote]

You are lying and delusional. [/quote]

Nope. Not at all. Go to school, son. [/quote]

It was a commodity. There are receipts.

https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/economyofgoods/index.php/2016/12/11/black-powder-and-hot-lead-a-brief-history-of-colonial-munitions-in-mercantile-and-imports/[/quote]

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