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To: cosmicforce who wrote (2023)10/10/2000 4:55:28 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10042
 
I appreciate the response, but I'm still not clear on how a private arsenal would be defined. Would my ragtag collection of guns and their associated (nonexplosive) ammo be considered a private arsenal? Why or why not?

My motivation is curiosity - these aren't rhetorical questions. One day attorneys will need to chew on definitions like these, and I am wondering what range of possibilities they might cover. At one extreme, they might classify a .22 pistol and a box of 50 cartridges a "private arsenal". Imo that would be overly restrictive.



To: cosmicforce who wrote (2023)10/10/2000 11:44:32 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 10042
 
Cosmic... get off the logic of "everyone could justify owning their own cruise missile"...

It is QUITE CLEAR when reviewing the history of the American minutemen, that they were expected to possess a rifle, powder horn, and a field kit..

They were not expected to possess cannons, naval vessels, and/or storehouses of live ordnance and barrels of gunpowder.

Let's use just a bit of common sense here.


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