{"id":69164,"date":"2023-09-15T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=69164"},"modified":"2023-09-15T06:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:11:17","slug":"know-your-firearms-history-the-tiffany-guns-of-the-spanish-american-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/15\/know-your-firearms-history-the-tiffany-guns-of-the-spanish-american-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Firearms History: The \u2018Tiffany Guns\u2019 of the Spanish-American War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69165 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Browning-MG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Browning-MG.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Browning-MG-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Browning-MG-768x851.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Browning-MG-300x332.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"lh-sm fs-2 verb-extra mb-2 w-100\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gunmagwarehouse.com\/blog\/the-tiffany-guns-of-the-spanish-american-war\/\">The \u2018Tiffany Guns\u2019 of the Spanish-American War<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>President Joe Biden has repeatedly suggested when it was first drafted there were restrictions to the Second Amendment. He pressed the point by stating that \u201cyou couldn\u2019t own a cannon,\u201d while more recently he\u2019s made the argument that the Second Amendment isn\u2019t absolute in that Americans today can\u2019t own a machine gun.<\/h2>\n<h2>The president is of course wrong on both counts.<\/h2>\n<h2>First, numerous media outlets have fact-checked Biden on the former point and reported that cannons were, in fact, legal to own, and were commonly employed on civilian merchant ships in the late 18th century. Most Americans simply didn\u2019t own cannons because there was little reason to have one. As for the second point, Biden is also wrong \u2014 and today, residents in 37 states can legally own a machine gun if they go through the process of doing a transfer with the National Firearms Act (NFA) branch of the ATF.<\/h2>\n<h2>More importantly, there was a time when machine guns were marketed to consumers. That included famously the Thompson submachine gun, which was pitched to ranchers in the 1920s, but in fact, one of the very first American-produced machine guns was also offered for sale to civilians.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/gunmagwarehouse.com\/blog\/the-tiffany-guns-of-the-spanish-american-war\/\">RTWT.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Tiffany Guns\u2019 of the Spanish-American War &nbsp; President Joe Biden has repeatedly suggested when it was first drafted there were restrictions to the Second Amendment. He pressed the point by stating that \u201cyou couldn\u2019t own a cannon,\u201d while more recently he\u2019s made the argument that the Second Amendment isn\u2019t absolute in that Americans today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5442,3786,5445,13890,5477,6199,475,5064,478,479,6096,6135,1286,6052,4827,6458,6166,7357,24],"tags":[13783,7666,8482,14061,5229,16481,14275,660],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69166,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69164\/revisions\/69166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}