Mairead
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Thu Oct-30-03 03:58 PM
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114. Not merely manual presses, but screw-driven, flatbed letterpresses |
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not much changed since Gutenberg's, Caxton's, and de Woorde's time. Even clamshell letterpresses didn't yet exist, and offset was far in the future. Not to mention having to print on handmade paper, since the Fourdrinier brothers didn't produce their paper-making machine til the early 1800s.
But of course the argument is silly, since the Second doesn't protect the right to keep and bear single-shot flintlocks. The single-shot flintlocks were merely the pinnacle of the art at that time and, with a bayonet fitted, very definitely an 'assault rifle'.
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