Nah.  According to bruddah Carl's train of thought up there in Kam Heights, the old fire departments, like the early militia, must have been crack troops, boot camp institutionalized, and professionals possessing "military grade" equivalent equipment; not town-folk pedestrians.  (Whatever bruddah means by "military grade" applicable to "guns" at the time.  To distinguish, guns are the pistols, whereas muskets are the rifles.  I think the thought here is assault rifles rather than "guns,"......eh, bruddah Carl?)  Never mind it had been feared that a central govt posed a threat to the freedom of not just the virgin states, but further, to the nation's citizenry.  Yet here, Carl would have deprived the farmers of their muskets, since muskets were the state of the art "military grade guns" of the time.  No musket for Daniel Boone, or Davy Crockett in Congress?  Carl's intellect is a quite garbled, but this is typical editorial publication.