On Fox News Sunday yesterday, freshman Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson claimed that 100-round magazines of ammunition — like the one used by Aurora gunman James Holmes when he killed and wounded dozens of people in the span of just a couple of minutes last week — were a constitutionally protected right. Coincidentally, Daily Intel has just come across a previously undiscovered transcript of a June 12, 1787, debate on the Second Amendment at the Constitutional Convention. It reads as follows:

Jacob Broom (Delaware): Very good, then. We are all agreed that — and I quoteth — "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

[The delegates murmur in agreement.]

Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania): Just to clarify, gentlemen — does this right extend to a musket capable of firing 100 musket balls in quick succession without the need to reload?

[The delegation erupts into a bout of hearty laughter.]

Charles Pinckney (South Carolina): Good heavens, Dr. Franklin, are you drunk again?

David Brearley (New Jersey): Such a weapon is quite fantastical, Dr. Franklin.

Rufus King (Massachusetts): Quite fantastical indeed!