RE HELLER

“Weaponry that put them on par with any standing army of the day.”

Apropos the point I was attempting to make with Oh Goody.  Just what I wanted. An opportunity to take umbrage with Antonin Scalia, this from Barking Moonbat. “ *snip* ....  Already armed, with privately owned cannon. Weapons of minor mass destruction. Weapons of a completely military nature. Weapons capable of, indeed designed specifically for, projecting explosive “destructive devices” with the specific intention of killing and wounding as many people as possible at one time. Those are the kind of “arms” the Second Amendment is also talking about. Cannons similar to the privately owned ones that the British attempted to seize at Lexington and Concord. Artillery in the hands of the citizenry. Weaponry that put them on par with any standing army of the day. ”