Founding fathers had cannons, made them legal for civilians, did you also know they wanted the US citizens to have more warships than the government? During the time of the writing of our admendment's, the civilian sector owned 200x the amount of warships as the government did, including massive artillery ships, which could ravage whole cities, and the founding fathers approved if it "But they wouldn't know about machine guns, and they would want them banned' yeah, no, they legalized essentially civilian battleships during their time, they knew what they were doing, privateers owned entire small navies, and the founding fathers saw that as fine.
