Statement: "The Founders of America never envisioned assault weapons when the wrote the 2nd Amendment." Facts: The flintlock musket was the most modern, most powerful high tech weapon ever made at the time the 2nd amendment was written. Statement: "The 2nd Amendment doesn't apply to today's weapon's." Fact: Then neither does the 1st Amendment apply to Television , Radio, the Internet and certainly not pornography. Because back then the founders only had newspapers.