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Gun control question

If the Second Amendment gives me the absolute right to have guns - or rather "bear arms" - then shouldn't I have the right to own an RPG? And a machine gun? And hand grenades? 

 

Why don't I have this right?

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Re: Gun control question

  • :: raises hand::

    I think I might know why but I've spoken up enough already so I'll let the other kids in the class post on this one :) 

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  • imageGeraldoRivera:

    If the Second Amendment gives me the absolute right to have guns - or rather "bear arms" - then shouldn't I have th

  • I'm no gun owner or expert so I'm going out on a limb here but if I had to guess it is because the framers of the constitution were specifically speaking to guns and RPGs are not guns. They are essentially rocket launchers for grenades.

    Further,

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  • Ok I just poked around the internetz a bit and it appears that there are approximately 250K legally owned machine guns in the U.S. Interesting random statistic that I saw was that since 1934 there have only be 2 murders with legally owned machine guns. <b
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