Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: amdfanboy
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
How do you personally define "arms"? Clubs? Knives? Pistols? Rifles? ARs? Granades? Mortars? RPGs? Nukes?
Whatever arms are necessary for a well-regulated militia to be able to defend the security of a free state.
WINNER! :beer:
The well-regulated militia btw is the common men, allowed to keep arms and to train themselves in the use of arms (not the national guard or any other professional or semi-professional military). In other words, the regular citizens, those same brave men who helped the Founding Fathers win the Revolutionary War, aka citizen soldiers, the same ones that were also considered indispensible in America winning WWII.
In general, "arms" are defined as those weapons that the common military infantry would carry on their persons; rifles, pistols, swords, etc. Grenades are considered to be explosives, which are ordinance. Cannons were not considered to be arms in Revolutionary War times, but artillery, and today that would include mortars, rpgs, nukes, tomahawk cruise missiles, etc.