In the summer of 1619, the leaders of the fledgling Jamestown colony came together as the first general assembly to enact “just Laws for the happy guiding and governing of the people there inhabiting.” Consisting of the governor, Sir George Yeardley; his four councillors; and 22 elected “burgesses,” or representatives, the group approved more than 30 measures. Among them was the nation’s first gun law:

That no man do sell or give any Indians any piece, shot, or powder, or any other arms offensive or defensive, upon pain of being held a traitor to the colony and of being hanged as soon as the fact is proved, without all redemption.

This is essentially what he tries to argue the entire article, poorly, as the majority of his “gun laws” were either don’t give guns to non-citizens or hostile foreigners. He throws in some anti union laws and pretends it was “weapon control”.

the summer of 1619

I seem to remember some important event between this and the Constitution in 1787. Oh yeah, that's right, the people overthrew the government. Do you think they did not know about some gun laws of the past? American gun rights are rooted in protecting the people from the government.

Is this where they drone on about the laws applied to freed slaves in the South for a while? Cuz that's where we really wanna go back to.