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by archey1 2568 days ago
The framers wanted the people to have access to the same weapons the government did - to allow the people to have a very real check over the overreach of said government.

Benjamin Franklin was an inventor - if you think when they wrote the second amendment they didn't think "gee, maybe guns will shoot faster someday" then I don't know what to tell you.