For the musket talk on 2A

There are some who want to say 2A only applied to muskets, which is foolish, for too many reasons to get into. Let's look at the Puckle Gun.

The Puckle gun (also known as the defence gun) was a primitive crew-served, manually-operated flintlock[1]revolver patented in 1718 by James Puckle (1667–1724), a British inventor, lawyer and writer. It was one of the earliest weapons to be referred to as a "machine gun", being called such in a 1722 shipping manifest...The cylinder held 6 to 11 shots depending on configuration, and was hand-loaded with powder and shot while detached from the weapon...