One of the largest arguments for gun control is that “it only applies to muskets” or “there were no machine guns back then” or “it applies to guns that take minutes to fire 2 shots, not multiple shots a time”

The 2nd Amendment was adopted December 15, 1791 [source]

Belton Flintlock

This was submitted to congress for funding 1777, 14 years before the 2nd amendment.



It was capable of “sixteen or twenty [balls], in sixteen, ten, or five seconds of time”.

Yes, 4 rounds per second. Faster than a modern AR-15.

Girandoni air rifle

22-shot .46 caliber repeating air rifle.



Puckle Gun

This is a repeating rifle that was patented 73 years before the 2nd amendment. It fired 18-45 times faster than a musket could.

The best part is that it was designed to be more deadly vs Muslims. “Puckle demonstrated two configurations of the basic design: one, intended for use against Christian enemies, fired conventional round bullets, while the second, designed to be used against the Muslim Turks, fired square bullets. The square bullets were considered to be more damaging.”





Please tell me again how congress didn’t know about high capacity rapid fire machine guns when they adopted the 2nd amendment.

Please tell me how your own argument doesn’t prevent free speech from your iPhone over the internet?