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Arms means all arms, obsolete, current or yet to be invented the same as religion means all religions obsolete, current or yet to come. I must have written that a hundred times. Apparently you have difficulty with it but have yet to show what this difficulty is other than another of your crusades.
I have stated my position with reference to the 2A the only possible limitation that can be applied to arms was discussed by Halbrook. To keep and bear. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind the founders were quite happy with any arm that would be issued to infantry. It is ludicrous that anyone envisaging citizens defence against a tyrannical government should be hobbled by people frightened of technology. Nor should any power be given to government to weaken citizens defence. A republic puts the people in charge not government which the founding fathers repeatedly warned was not to be trusted.
The question is will government ever use nuclear arms against the people? Can government be trusted not to?
It is not can the people be trusted.
That (bolded above) is not so. Many religious practices, past, present and future, are not protected by the 1A. Just as your right to freely swing your fist stops at my nose, your right to be armed does not include all manner of WMDs - biological, nuclear and/or chemical. The argument must then focus (as it does now) on what those limits are, in other words, can a law declaring that only 7 foot long, blaze orange, single shot, smooth bore guns become the only firearm protected by the 2A be called constitutional?