The people who wrote 2A would have been suffering from a severe lack of imagination if they couldn't conceive of modern assault rifles.

What they failed to conceive of was that the people would let themselves get so pussified that they wouldn't even bother to murder their government before we got to where we currently are. Real talk. We had all the tools. We let them take it from us. That's collective 'we' and more applies to our ancestors, for the record. But, yeah, we fucked up along the way.

Girardoni air rifles, and one would be carried by Lewis and Clarke across the continent.

Such fucking cool pieces of history.