“The Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed, you couldn’t own a cannon…there’s always been limitations,”
Biden is full of schitt. You could own a cannon back then as well you can own one today. Lots of people had cannons and other state of the art weapons. They outfitted their own ships with cannons, they let the new navy borrow their cannons for their ships.
American Privateers capture some 2000 British ships.