Read the Quad-City Times letters to the editor, Sunday Feb 10, 2013 for another point of view,
Leave it to mallcontent to point to another source reporting only half truisms! Your author fails to tell readers the rest of the story: The Militia act of May 08, 1792 actually orders able bodied men to arm themselves with a musket, bayonet and belt, two spare flints, a cartridge box with 24 bullets, and a knapsack.
