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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Is that a generally accepted definition? IYHO, would the Framers have considered cannons covered by the 2nd Amendment?
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I think it is accepted. I don't know if they picked the word specifically.
Bouvier's law dictionary (c. 1856, closer to the framers than we are) sez
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ARMS. Any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes in his hands, or uses in his anger, to cast at, or strike at another. Co. Litt. 161 b, 162 a; Crompt. Just. P. 65; Cunn. Dict. h. t.
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The word "anger" seems subjective here, but I think it makes the point that a rock can be "arms" in certain circumstances.