Not without a lot of requirements being met including a license.

ITT the cops tell the citizens that they are afraid of a well armed citizenry.

The 2A exists to protect our ability to (hypothetically) wage war against the government. Part of fighting the government could (and logically should) require breaching the homes of government agents and killing them while they sleep. Stacking dudes at their weakest moments is part of war.

This argument has nothing to do with Jamal and his section 8 housing or his presumed criminal history, that’s just a ruse. It’s about certain people (justifiably) worrying about protecting their loved ones against the eventual wrath of the citizens they oppress. I can’t hold that concern against them.

Nah......I'm good.......done that

"Shall not be infringed"

This right here.

If it pleases the crown....

Well..with a shitty, do nothing attitude like that, I'd expect no less.

As you can see in the bellow educational .gif, some pot smoking communists breaches the FUCK out of a rattle trap F-150 (exhibit A).  The explosive yield is analogous to that of a standard breaching charge (exhibit B).

Drivers license is all that's needed

A.)


B.)

I am not being "Obtuse" I am arguing the original intent of the 2nd amendment.

Study more history

https://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/revolutionary-war-grenade

Are you trying to say when the Founding Fathers wrote the 2nd Amendment they did not consider "Explosives" to be part of "Arms" even though explosives were used to fight the British forces?

false.

You gotta get your chemistry game on.

Explosives are all around us.  And I'm not saying go cook some up, you can literally go to Home Depot right now and buy explosives.

It couldn’t have been something that explodes... could it?

It has EVERYTHING to do with the rabble like Jamaal, because while you're all in your basement jerking off to your fantasies on taking on the government someday, Jamal and his buddies would be out there using the stuff against you and me.
If it ever came to a fighting war on our own soil, there would be enough explosives to go around, probably more than we'd care to deal with. Meanwhile in the real world civil society here and now, there's absolutely no use for this stuff in circulation amongst the general population.

*wrong*

To avoid philosophical hypocrisy, must feel the exact same way about firearms.  You've been breathing too much NY air comrade.

If that’s Liberia, possession of that RPG (and nearly any other sort of repeating firearm) is very illegal.

Why? They had Grenades during the revolutionary war. And other explosives.

This is quite interesting.
Bomb Vessel Wikipedia

There are multiple legitimate societal uses for firearms. Completely different category of "stuff" than explosives. This has absolutely nothing to do with what state we respectively live in.

Here we go with the reasoning why one person should not be allowed to have it because he might do something bad. So no one should be allowed to have it

Ban fertilizer, ban ball bearings, ban pressure cookers, ban knives, ban swords, ban cars, ban straws, ban soda

So you are saying there are no legitimate uses for explosives?  I can think of dozens.

The Royal Navy hanged the crews of armed merchantmen who had their cannons to repel pirates and privateers?  I think someone is making up facts to fit their agenda.

A more racist argument for gun control I haven't seen in recent memory.  

The 2A was to protect the arms for the militia which was to field a standard light infantry battalion with all its arms. Which did include cannon.
If these are in the TO&E for a light infantry battalion, then they're legit under the 2A.

There are far more industrial uses for explosives than there are for firearms.

Firearms are made for killing and control, and thus they fit right into the role of Second Amendment. Explosives can be used for myriad purposes in construction, mining, farming, etc.

Lots of houses in this area were only able to be constructed because explosives due to hardpan. There’s a good use for you right there.

It was the best pic I could find to demonstrate what happens when the general populace has unrestricted access to everything......

The people in this thread saying their rights are being infringed because they can't buy breaching charges cash-and-carry OTC are , or have recently been, smoking crack

This aint the 1920's anymore when you went with grandpappy to the hardware store to buy dynamite to blow a few stumps

You think unrestricted access to firearms is why those countries went to shit?

lol

my statement was pertain to your totality of posts in this thread.

We see America differently

So you’re in favor of restricting everyone because some people might use a product to harm other people?

And in those situations the government grants explosive licenses so that the stuff can be used and proper safeguards followed; mining, for instance

We aren't talking about industrial explosives.

All explosives should be protected by 2nd Amendment. I want some C4 or at minimum some RDX.

All hail the government.  The giver of life.  

Only the agent of government is professional enough.

LOL

So you need to be granted permission to blow some stumps, beaver dams etc?  Basically your argument is that people can't be trusted.  That's the same argument that the anti-rights crowd uses against firearms.  I hate to be trite, but "freedom be scary yo!"

So if I put industrial explosives on a door, it’s all good?

“It is a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.”

".........It's for the community." love'n every minute of it. Looks like good stuff, Make yer own.

I'm not talking about firearms......

I give up.....you guys are right....

I fully support your right to walk around with a fucking block of Semtex in your pocket everywhere you go......

Its a big reason why they stay shitholes.

You realize that many merchant vessels were armed even if not engaged in war, right?

They might have only had 12-20 guns or so, but they were still armed for self-defense. Those ships, their crews, and their owners didn't need permission to arm them, ONLY to use them offensively.

Yes, both on principal and for the YouTube videos.

Id wager that has a whole lot more to do with corrupt and tyrannical governments than dudes with AKs.

Yeah, I'm the one twisting the Constitution

*WHOOOSH*

“What’s legal isn’t always right, and what’s right isn’t always legal.”  I’ve had this discussion with friends before. It’s usually those personality types that are always concerned about “what’s the rule on this” as a way of avoiding personal responsibility for their decisions. “I was only following the rule/orders/policy/law” is a great scapegoat for poor decision making.

I’m not trying to imply that I haven’t made made my share of poor decisions, but I try to own them, and learn from them, so as not to repeat them. I do my best not to place the blame on others or circumstances.

There seems to be a lot of bickering in here about semantics, and not a lot of introspect on the basic principals and beliefs of a “free” society.

There seems to be a certain segment of our society that operates under a “ruling class” mentality, and has taken advantage of another segment of our society that lives by the “just tell me what to eat/think/drink/breathe so I don’t have to do it for myself” motto.  They are hellbent on spreading their misery, poverty, subjugation, and violence into every city and small town in America.  The most frustrating part is that they don’t even see that it’s their very own desire to have someone else be responsible for their safety that is creating their own suffering, and soon ours.

I heard an interview with Mike Rowe (dirty jobs guy), where he was reminiscing about a lesson he learned on a crab boat.  While retrieving the pots during a bad storm, he asked the Captain about his duty to keep his crew safe.  The Captain replied that it’s the crew’s job to keep themselves safe, it’s his job to put them on the crab and keep them paid. As soon as someone takes responsibility for the safety of others, it lessens that obligation on the others, and negligent accidents happen, and people die. I’m paraphrasing of course, but having spent some time on construction sites where “safety is everyone’s job”, it really sunk in what that means.

Similar logic can be applied to the police state we seem to be developing in recent years.  Freedom comes with a price. And to me, that price is that I will have to learn to live with a certain amount of chaos that comes with free will. I’m ok with this, as long as I’m not deprived of my ability to stand firm against tyranny, in whatever form it may choose to enter my life. (This is my duty as a man, a husband, and a father.)  If I abdicate that ability to another, thus making it “not my job”, I have effectively weakened my family and society in the process.

This type of shit is really the last thing I want to be dealing with today. I’m on “vacation” and have a long list of honey do’s to get started on. I really just want to earn an honest living, live my life, love my wife, raise my boys to be honest, ethical husbands and fathers, and then die in peace as a happy (and tired) old man. Just let me do that, and there will no no trouble from me. Please, I’m asking nicely.

Now...where did I put that multi-tester?

You're vastly over-estimating the numbers in armament available to Privateers during the War
14,872 guns amongst 1700 ships amounts to an average of 8 guns per Privateer.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/privateer.htm

Hooray!

Hard to create a stable government when you have a 1000 different "militias" armed to the teeth ready to challenge any attempt to have some sort of normal government.

Did they require a government permission slip?

As it should be.