5 Gun Control Arguments We Are Tired Of Hearing

By Craig Boudreau

Gun control advocates recycle the same talking points when arguing why the federal government should curtail people’s Second Amendment rights.

The anti-gun lobby deploys a range of straw-man arguments, like the Founding Fathers considered “arms” to mean single-loader muskets, and the “militia” to be the only legitimate custodnian of these arms. In more recent years, the no-guns crowd has even called for outright confiscation.

The Daily Caller News Foundation put together a list of the five most used talking points from gun control advocates.

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1. The Founding Fathers could never have imagined semi-automatic guns of today

Gun control advocates like to argue the founders never envisioned semi-automatic weapons when they crafted the Second Amendment. Gun controllers say the founders only had muskets in mind. The Daily Caller News Foundation put that idea to rest in June.

“The idea that firearms technology was static during the 18th/19th Century is bunk,” William Atwater, a military technology expert, told TheDCNF.

“They had witnessed huge advances in firearms technology — i.e. matchlock giving way to the wheel lock, which, in turn gave way to the flint lock,” Atwater said. “Each and every one of these developments were huge in their day.”

The Washington Post said in a June article the “typical firearms of the day were muskets and flintlock pistols.” The Post writer further argued muskets “could hold a single round at a time, and a skilled shooter could hope to get off three or possibly four rounds in a minute of firing.”

That’s just false. There were several examples of “repeating” guns that were capable of firing dozens of rounds in quick succession. The founders were very aware of guns capable of firing many rounds in under a minute.

A man by the name of Joseph Belton even wrote a letter to the Continental Congress in 1777 — the Second Amendment wasn’t ratified until 1791 — and tried to sell them on a rifle that could fire “eight balls one after another, in eight, five or three seconds of time.”

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