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Leonard
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posted February 26, 2018 10:38 AM
Bumped into this little gem this morning. Some, almost all, I did not know?
The Militia Acts of 1792, a year after passage of the Second Amendment, required the following as part of a larger program for enrolling all eligible military-age men in the militia:
[E]ach and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective states, resident therein, who is or shall be of the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years … shall…provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch with a box therein to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball: or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch and powder-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powder…
That same tradition informed the formation of the NRA, founded by Union Army veterans who had been alarmed at the superior marksmanship of Confederate soldiers and wanted to spread the practice of owning and training with rifles in the North and Midwest.
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