The founders never could have imagined the AR-15.
Strict constitutional originalism is dumb.The Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. In 1791, people still widely believed in witchcraft, bathed several times a year and thought that if a human being were ever to exceed 25 miles per hour via horse or carriage they would surely perish. The Second Amendment may have made sense back then, it doesn’t today. The founders could not have possibly imagined the AR-15.
A lot of the Bill of Rights is understandably focused on issues that were pertinent to the revolution. Some amendments haven’t aged as well as others. The Third Amendment, prohibiting the quartering of soldiers in private homes during peacetime without express permission from the homeowner, doesn’t often find itself challenged in the courts.
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