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Boomhauer

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Re: Gun Control Watch
« Reply #725 on: October 22, 2024, 01:01:29 PM »
The dems: The 2A is about hunting

Meanwhile in Connecticut

State attorneys: hunting rifles are not “constitutionally” protected in Connecticut
https://insideinvestigator.org/hunting-guns-protection/


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Re: Gun Control Watch
« Reply #726 on: October 22, 2024, 01:27:04 PM »
The dems: The 2A is about hunting

Meanwhile in Connecticut

State attorneys: hunting rifles are not “constitutionally” protected in Connecticut
https://insideinvestigator.org/hunting-guns-protection/

Well, the 2A isn't about hunting. The 2A was meant to guarantee a well armed militia, not effective deer and duck hunting. So, being intellectually honest, it's guns of military usefulness that are protected by the 2A.

Now, in an exististential fight for survival, scoped deer rifles are quite effective at long range sharp-shooting.  Duck guns (with a change of choke and switch to buckshot) are decent close quarter weapons.

So there's substantial overlap between hunting and militia weapons that winds up protecting hunting guns.
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Re: Gun Control Watch
« Reply #727 on: October 22, 2024, 01:48:29 PM »
I would argue that the intent was to protect militia weapons, but the wording of the second amendment protects all weapons.

To say nothing of the fact that at the time many weapons served dual use - hunting and defense around the home, militia use when needed.

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Re: Gun Control Watch
« Reply #728 on: October 23, 2024, 09:48:47 AM »
I was suprised to learn that quite a few early state constitutional RKBA provisions explictely mentioned hunting as one purpose of the law.

Hunting regulations in England were sometimes used to advance gun control, and it seems Americans were wary of that.