Cosmo doesn’t think handguns existed in the 18th Century

By Chris Eger

This pair of flintlock holster pistols were believed to have been owned by George Washington and were made in England in the 18th Century. (Photo: Mount Vernon)
Cosmopolitan Magazine weighed in on the Second Amendment, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch, and constitutional originalism, but got at least one thing wrong.
The “best-selling young women’s magazine in the U.S., a bible for fun, fearless females that reaches more than 18 million readers a month,” published a piece by Jill Filipovic on Tuesday entitled 9 Reasons Constitutional Originalism Is Bullsh*t aimed at smiting the concept that the U.S Constitution should be interpreted as close to the framer’s actual intent as possible.
In the multifaceted attack on the theory, Filipovic steamrolls through a number of contemporary topics and compares them to what was going on in the new United States when the Constitution was signed. Eventually, gun politics reared its head and the piece addressed it with this response (emphasis ours):
No, not even Scalia, who decided plenty of cases according to his own whims and opinions. Take the District of Columbia v. Heller case, about a D.C. law restricting handgun ownership. Until recently, judges generally interpreted the Second Amendment according to the same narrow

Source: Guns.com