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Gun control activists love to say, “No one is coming for your guns.”

In Virginia, Governor Abigail Spanberger signed a ban on future sales of so‑called “assault fi****ms” and magazines over 15 rounds, effective July 1. Gun owners heard the message loud and clear… and headed straight to the gun counter. According to NICS data highlighted by TTAG, background checks for gun purchases in Virginia jumped 241% in June over the same month last year—over 123,000 checks in one month alone.

The law is now partially blocked by the courts, but the damage to the gun‑control narrative is done. The people who were supposedly being “disarmed” just bought hundreds of thousands of rifles, parts, and mags they might never have bought without a government deadline. Spanberger’s signature did more to arm Virginia in six months than most pro‑2A campaigns manage in six years.

The Truth About Guns has the full breakdown of the numbers and how badly this backfired on Spanberger and her allies. Link in the comments if you want the receipts the next time someone claims “no one is coming for your guns.”

They keep saying, “The Founders only meant muskets.”

That sounds smart on TV, but it dies the second you actually read what those same men wrote and allowed in their own time. The Constitution doesn’t just mention “arms”; it authorizes letters of marque, which depended on privately owned warships, privately owned heavy weapons, and privately armed citizens acting with the firepower of a navy.

These were not people afraid of civilians having “too much gun.” They lived with American long rifles that outranged muskets and knew about repeaters and air rifles that fired multiple shots without reloading. Thomas Jefferson himself owned one of those Girardoni air rifles. They saw more advanced, more capable arms in private hands and still wrote “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” without carving out an exception for anything “too modern.”

So when someone says, “The Second Amendment didn’t mean AR‑15s,” the honest answer is simple:
It never said “muskets.” It said “arms.” The Founders knew technology would change. They still chose to lock in a principle: a citizenry armed well enough to stand up to real threats, not just to hunt ducks.

Read the article from Bearing Arms at the link in the comments, then drop this question under every “they only meant muskets” post you see:
“If they were scared of advanced weapons in civilian hands, why did they authorize private warships?”