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(DC Pundit) – You have to hand it to the Associated Press, their timing is truly something special. With America gearing up to celebrate its 250th birthday, the AP decided the most pressing journalistic contribution they could make was a video suggesting that the Founding Fathers’ muskets might need to be regulated. Nothing says “Happy Birthday, America” quite like coming for the flintlock.
The AP posted a short video highlighting what it framed as a troubling lack of federal regulation surrounding antique flintlock muskets. They weren’t exactly subtle about where they were going with it. “A musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second,” the AP posted on X, adding, “Imagine what that can do to a human body. Yet under federal and most state laws, it’s exempt from gun regulations. Many antique or replica guns aren’t considered firearms and even convicted felons can own them.”
A musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second.
Imagine what that can do to a human body. Yet under federal and most state laws, it’s exempt from gun regulations. Many antique or replica guns aren’t considered firearms and even convicted… pic.twitter.com/RBT5ihazdA
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 14, 2026
Let that marinate. The Associated Press, in the year of America’s semiquincentennial, is genuinely raising alarm bells about muskets. The weapon that helped birth this nation. The gun that won the Revolutionary War. The firearm that allowed a band of determined colonists to defeat the most powerful military force on earth at the time and establish the greatest country in human history. That musket.
For those wondering about the legal framework, under 18 USC 921(16) of federal law, flintlock muskets are classified as “antique firearms” and are therefore exempt from the regulations that govern modern firearms. This is not a loophole. It is a deliberate and entirely reasonable legal distinction that has existed for decades.
But here’s the thing about the liberal left and gun control, they have never encountered a firearm regulation they didn’t immediately love and want to expand. If they could find a way to regulate slingshots and pointed sticks, they would hold a press conference about it. The AP’s musket video is just the latest example of an agenda that never sleeps, never quits, and never misses an opportunity to chip away at the Second Amendment from whatever angle presents itself, even if that angle is a 250-year-old muzzleloader.
The Second Amendment was written by men who had just fought a war for freedom. They understood better than anyone what an armed citizenry means for the survival of liberty. These were battle-hardened patriots who had watched friends and neighbors bleed and die for the right to govern themselves, and they made absolutely certain that no future government, foreign or domestic, would ever find it easy to take that right away.
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