What “arms” looked like when the 2nd Amendment was written

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4. Dangerous Argument

The arms in private hands during the Revolution (particularly certain domestic long rifles used to great effect sniping British officers) were often superior to the shorter range Brown Bess musket most commonly used by the British (although the Brits did have a small number of rifles, including a breach loading model).

There are a number of court cases that hold that the arms contemplated by the Second Amendment were, in fact, whatever would be the contemporary to whatever the military had access to, being that the purpose was to have an armed populous to serve as the militia (and also to keep the government itself in check). In fact, a number of liberal USSC justices danced around that argument.

Anyway, long way of saying this argument can be used against reasonable gun control and would not be my recommended approach.