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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To the founders - sovereignty, or final authority - was always supposed to be in the hands of the people of the several states. Not any level of government.

"The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
-Tench Coxe, Essay in the Pennsylvania Gazette (20 Feb 1788)

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Sovereignty - final authority - was always meant to be in the hands of the People of the several states. Not government.

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