Biden says that if you want to stand against the government you need F-15s and nuclear weapons.

Fact Check #1: Private cannon ownership was legal. There were no real regulations on firearms in America until the 1800s.

Fact Check #2: ​Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam are just a few examples of the impossibility of long-term control over an armed populace that resists control.

Transcript:
Biden: I might add the second amendment from the day it was passed,

limited the type of people could own a gun. And what type of weapon you

could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon*. Those who say the blood of li- the

blood of patriots you know- and all the stuff about how we’re gonna have

to...move against the government. Well the tree of liberty is not watering the

blood of patriots. What’s happened is that there never been- if you wanted to

think you need to have weapons to take on the government you need F-15s

and maybe some nuclear weapons**. The point is, that there’s always been

the ability to limit, rationally limit, the type of weapon that can be owned, and

who can own it.