CIVIL RIGHTS REMINDER: Here’s a Quick Second Amendment History Lesson For Michigan’s Islamo-Socialist Senate Candidate, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
Muskets weren’t obsolete antiques when the Second Amendment was ratified. They were standard military firearms used by the armies of the day.
And the Founders didn’t merely tolerate private ownership of those weapons. Early federal law actually required eligible militiamen to furnish their own military-capable firearms and ammunition.
For Texas Gun Rights, that history underscores a fundamental constitutional principle: The Second Amendment was never intended to leave the government armed with weapons the American people were forbidden to possess.
It was written to protect an armed citizenry, including as a safeguard against government tyranny. Yet that founding principle remains at the center of a modern political battle over firearm bans, constitutional amendments, and the future of the Supreme Court.
The Brits gave up the last of their guns three decades ago, and it’s been one encroachment after another ever since.