> anyone who takes them has to use an 18th century pirate ship, weapons, costumes, the lot. Flintlock pistol and cutlass, rum and hardtack, sodomy and the lash. If we're going to use 18th century laws, we should stick to 18th century technology and custom, it's what the founding fathers would have wanted.

If you showed the founding fathers the service rifle used by militaries today (with magazines of ammunition, automatic fire) or portable anti-tank munitions, you think they'd say "nah, flintlocks are the tools we want for the job"?