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They've also generated an equal number of documents indicating the opposite. The commentary of the founders is only one part of determining the original meaning of the Constitution. I will have more on this by tomorrow so please bear with me Turtle.
Well, they would have the commerce clause authority to regulate guns traveling across state lines. Apart from that I would say that they haven't got any delegated power to regulate small arms, on an originalist reading, and guns that stay within the state are for the state to regulate as they see fit.
LOL that is funny. It was FDR's admnistration that stretched the commerce clause beyond all recognition. But do me a favor-find me all those documents that indicate the founders did not think the individual citizens had an inalienable right to keep and bear arms. I have researched this issue for more than 30 years, lectured several ABA law school bodies on the second amendment and I have yet to come across an "equal body" of contrary documents to the well known statements that pro gun scholars constantly post on the subject.