Private Cannon Ownership in Early America

 Private Cannon Ownership in Early America

https://www.aier.org/article/private-cannon-ownership-in-early-america/

Excerpt: And although I hesitate to bring this to Joe’s attention, individuals and nonprofits own cannon today. In 2019, for example, Brown’s Company of Artillery fired for five hours in Lebanon … the one in Connecticut. And the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, a private artillery company organized in Massachusetts in 1638, still exists! Yes, they fire smoothbore muzzleloaders, which remain completely federally unregulated to this day. Breech loading cannon with rifled barrels are federally regulated, but not banned. [I recall, but don’t remember from where, that in Arizona as recently as the 1890s, smooth-bore cannon were legal to own by private individuals PROVIDED THE OWNER COULD PHYSICALLY LIFT AND CARRY IT 100 FEET–thus “bearing” the firearm at least once during each calendar year. Ron P.]