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Originally Posted by Longermonger
I ask you: Where in the 2nd Amendment does it specifically state that you have the right to own and use explosives?
You know...the FIRE in FIREARMS. The 2nd states that you have the right to bear ARMS (not FIREARMS), and the SCOTUS recently (and wrongly) reversed decades of law to declare that right as an individual right. But it doesn't say shit about your right to bear FIRE (explosives).
So guess what. Gunpowder and the exotic explosives used in primers are fair game. Your expensive 45 or AR will become expensive paperweights.
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Sorry, but not even the federal government considers smokeless powder as "explosives." Smokeless powder is FLAMABLE, but it's NOT an explosive. When I used to shoot competatively, I'd buy powder 8lbs at a time, along with 5000 primers. And there are no restrictions on the ownership of primers, just like there's no restriction on the ownership of matches.
Secondly, if you think that the founders who wrote the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution didn't include gunpowder (black powder, in those days) as part of the "arms" to which they were referring, look up General Gage and Concord.
Finally, explain to me how it is that in the Bill of Rights, the word "people" means something different in the second amendment than any other amendments (even though all 10 were ratified and adopted at the same time,) especially when you consider that the federal government, states, and "the people" are all specifically mentioned to differentiate them.
BTW, before Heller, there was NO settled case law on this, and the SCOTUS finally (and rightly) incorporated the second amendment as an individual right.
Mark
Isn't the solution obvious?
