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The earliest hand gun licensing systems weren't implemented until the just before the Civil War in the South (for the exact reasons you'd think the South would do that).
Aka racism...gun laws like this are designed to keep minorities from obtaining protection.
True. Before that you needed to have a certain job. Purposive open carry laws. The other gun law at the time was breach of peace, which is what you'd have been charged with for open carrying. The idea that guns cannot be regulated is a modern invention by people who want Americans to kill each other, and who don't give a fuck about rights.
Seriously. People had to register their guns since the country was founded. There were also safe storage laws and bans on concealed and open carry.
Source? Pre '64 there wasn't even mandated serialization of commerical sold firearms so a registration system would have been difficult to implement.
His ass is his source.
I guess my ass writes early American law...
https://theconversation.com/five-types-of-gun-laws-the-founding-fathers-loved-85364
Literally none of what that opinion piece says shows any laws. The first one being registration...it wasn't gun registration it was basically a draft registration. You posted up some opinion piece from an anti gun nut and said "see it's true"... what's worse is dude uses his own book as a source...
You literally had to hand in your guns when you came into town. Don't need numbers when the sheriff is keeping them in a safe with ownership tags on them.
https://theconversation.com/five-types-of-gun-laws-the-founding-fathers-loved-85364
Not difficult at all since there were a lot fewer people and most people knew each other. Because the militia was supposed to be our main defense, being a part of it meant your guns had to be inspected to be well-regulated.
We did quickly move away from the militia focused model though when there was a big loss against Natives due to terribly coordinated militias.
That law is about ensuring the militia's guns were of adequate quality to fight. If they came to your house and found you didn't have a good fighting gun at hand you'd get in trouble. I'm not sure that's the parallel you want it to be.
It's exactly the parallel it should be. Because there is no militia anymore. That doesn't mean you ignore half the amendment. It means no one qualifies for the second amendment anymore.
Did you actually read your "source"? The article claims a lot but offers no substantiation to many of the claims.
And after we moved away from militias, people stopped acting like the 2nd amendment applies to anything, right? If a militia isn't required anymore, the basis for the 2nd amendment is gone, so it doesn't apply.
I wish logic was used by people more often...