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Gun Control & RKBA

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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 01:45 PM Apr 2019

Beto O'Rourke demands ban on muskets at campaign rally [View all]

Or: Democrats On Guns Sounding Like Republicans On Abortion, Part The Eleventy-First:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-beto-orourke-los-angeles-rally-20190427-story.html

...“We will also insist and ensure that weapons that were designed and sold to the United States military, with the express purpose of killing people as efficiently as effectively and in as great a number as possible, are kept on the battlefields and are no longer sold in our communities, because they will end up in our synagogues, in our churches, in our mosques and public places.”

The crowd responded with strong applause...


Starting (or eventually ending up with) these, one supposes:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_1795_Musket



The Springfield Model 1795 Musket was a .69 caliber flintlock musket manufactured in the late 18th century and early 19th century at both the Springfield and Harper's Ferry U.S. Armories.

The Model 1795 was the first musket to be produced in the United States by Eli Whitney. It was based heavily on the Charleville musket, Model 1763/66, which had been imported in large numbers from the French during the American Revolution, and which at the time comprised the largest number of muskets in U.S. arsenals at about 20,000 muskets. The Model 1795 was used in the War of 1812


Service history
In service 1795–1865
Used by United States
Confederate States of America

Wars

American Indian Wars
Quasi-War
First Barbary War
1811 German Coast Uprising
Tecumseh's War
War of 1812
Creek War
Second Barbary War
First Seminole War
Mexican–American War
American Civil War



Hmm, maybe he really means to save us from the tidal waves of bayonnettings?









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