Is This Lawmaker Suggesting That We Use Muskets For Defense? Mar 26, 2019 One of the common arguments that I hear anti-gunners use when trying to justify disarming gun owners is that the 2nd Amendment was only talking about muskets and wasn’t intended to allow private citizens to own semi-automatic firearms (and certainly nothing as scary-looking as an AR-15!). Of course, they’re wrong, but that doesn’t mean that some anti-gunner politicians haven’t jumped on this idiotic bandwagon, too. One of these clueless legislators is Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) who recently tweeted, Nobody needs an AR-15 to hunt. Nobody needs a semi-automatic rifle to defend their home. But mass shooters NEED these weapons in order to murder as many people as efficiently as possible. And so nobody will miss them when they are illegal – except for the killers. You’d think that Murphy wants all of us to defend ourselves and hunt with muskets! Murphy, of course, has absolutely no