"Regulate Flintlock Muskets?" Topic

Who didn't see this coming? 😏 We used to wonder when they would come after our muskets next, while conversing around the campfire

I mean, they are the assault weapons of their eras. Just like spears, swords, bows and arrows, clubs and rocks. 😳😱

"Could you stand still, while I reload? My powder must have gotten damp in the pan."

Subject: The Associated Press on X: "A musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second. Imagine what that can do to a human body. Yet under federal and most state laws, it's exempt from gun regulations. Many antique or replica guns aren't considered firearms and even convicted t.co/RBT5ihazdA / X


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I shoot black powder with a .36 Navy and a .44 Army. I'm not aware of any legislation attempting to restrict this but, I'm also not aware of state activity outside of Colorado.

There is not to my knowledge. But this seems to be an attempt to get someone interested enough to start one, IMO. And since I received it as an email, others as well believe that.

Otherwise, why make any issue or story of it?

Write the story for clicks, there's nobody named in the story campaigning for change.

Military History.com

When New York toughened its gun laws in 2022, it required background checks for transfers and purchases of antique guns, and barred firearms of any kind from certain "sensitive places" like parks and museum sites — just the kinds of places reenactors appear most.

An exemption was later carved out for people "lawfully engaged in historical reenactments, educational programming involving historical weapons of warfare, or motion picture or theatrical productions." But that hasn't stopped out-of-state reenactors from worrying their muskets will be confiscated at the George Washington Bridge, says Justin Costantino, adjutant of the Long Island Companies of the 3rd New York Regiment."

Every state is different, for instance:

"At least three states — Hawaii, Ohio and North Dakota — treat a smoothbore musket the same as an AK-47 or AR-15. Reenactor Jason Monhollen, an officer in the U.S. Army, says that's "comparing apples and oranges."
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Am I overly concerned? No. But one has to be vigilant at all times.

I'm going out on a limb here but I'm guessing musket related crime as a percentage of all gun crime is probably statistically zero.

Write the story for clicks, there's nobody named in the story campaigning for change.

That's a bingo. I live in a state with very restrictive firearms regulations and nobody is even concerned about C&R weapons, let alone black powder.

I am concerned that our local paper here in central Texas even published this carefully contrived article. The subtitle and first two paragraphs clearly are written to evoke shock and fear.

Our Dear Captain seems to be suffering from a fit of histrionic behavior himself. In Ohio a blackpowder weapon is a firearm. With limited exceptions, all firearms are treated the same. The law is designed to keep convicted felons or those under disability from using or possessing firearms, even ones with outdated ignition systems. Cabela's checkbook took a beating when they sold a blackpowder pistol to a guy in Ohio who used said pistol to murder someone with it.

I have 3 black powder firearms now, most recently a 1860 Colt revolver replica. In Pa its cash and carry, no background check for antique era firearms.

I had purchased several black powder guns and received from Dixie Gun works shipped to me. (I don't remember how they were shipped.) I was trying to ship one to a buyer several years ago and found it difficult to get a shipper. UPS said no. I am not sure how I finally got it there.
Does a bumpstock make a flintlock shoot faster? (just kidding)

There's an episode of Castle in which a guy is found dead (and naked) in Central Park with a single bullet wound… from what appears to be a ball from an 18th century dueling pistol. It's a great episode with a lot of humor and a lot of firing of flintlock blackpowder pistols. (At one point the hero behaves stupidly with a gun, which he should have known not to do, but he gets his comeuppance promptly and without injury. Plus he's Nathan Fillion, which covereth a lot of script sins.)

No one ever means the next extension of government power--until one day they do. And all the people who said "we can regulate modern semi-automatics because they're NOT 18th Century smoothbores" will be on board with it when the time comes.

Watching the process now with gas ranges and hot water heaters.

Hooray! There's a solution!
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