The founders wanted the people to be armed - not just for hunting, or personal self-defense - but with military-grade weapons.

"Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American."
-Tench Coxe, Essay in the Pennsylvania Gazette (20 Feb 1788)

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