By Selwyn Duke
What is a “weapon of war”? Given all the talk about how such things mustn’t be on our streets — the claim that a firearm thus designated mustn’t be available to citizens — it’s an important question.
If by the phrase is meant a weapon designed for or used in warfare present or past, then the muskets and flintlocks the Founding Fathers carried qualify. So do spears, knives, the bow and arrow, and clubs and rocks.
Speaking of which, while agitating against AR-15s’ legality in 2013, then-vice president Joe Biden said that if “you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.” Aside from sounding close to what 84-year-old Kansas City man Andrew Lester did when shooting innocent teen Ralph Yarl on April 13, there’s an irony here....
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