2A applicable only to flintlocks? Apparently not.

[White Horseradish]

At least according to Mayor Bloomberg.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bro ... z0MgDbl7Fv

Like America's first soldiers at the Battle of Brooklyn, Michael Littlejohn is fighting for his right to bear arms.

The Revolutionary War buff charges the Bloomberg administration with tyranny for trying to seize his handmade flintlock rifle - a dead ringer for the weapon once used against the redcoats.

"This is the last legal gun that you can have without registration in New York," Littlejohn said. "And yet Mayor Bloomberg is driven crazy by my flintlock gun - the one that won the American Revolution."

[MisterOblivious]

Replica of a pre-1898 firearm: antique.

26 U.S.C. sec. 5845(g) "Antique firearm.-The term 'antique
firearm' means any firearm not designed or redesigned for using
rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed
ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898 (including any
matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition
system or replicas thereof, whether actually manufactured before
or after the year 1898) and also any firearm using fixed
ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which ammunition
is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily
available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade."

Hell, even felons can buy them and have them shipped to their house last I heard.
The "last gun" line isn't really true, he could own something high tech like a caplock
I wish him luck!

[White Horseradish]

Where I was going with this is the argument that the 2A only applies to arms as understood at the time of it's writing. Well, this is the exact arm in question, and they still want to take it away. So much for that...

[hoel6466]

Why is all legislation that allows a person to own firearms a loophole? Who is the *sshole who called the cops? Fight on Littlejohn, it's just sad that you have too.

[MNCarry]

Considering the open cesspool he's living in, I'm thinking this is the least of the guys worries.