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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Why We Can't Ignore the "Militia" Clause of the Second Amendment | Mises Wire

Also very interesting.

This is about having a well trained well equipped state militia. Which we do in the states. They are called National Guards for various states.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

You are not allowed to re-write this just because you want to. It does not say the right of states to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

It did not enumerate the right for states but for the people. It was trying to prevent a standing national army and to protect the rights of the states from tyrannical national government. And to do this it enumerated the right for the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms. It was not talking about personal protection (from home invaders and such) and hunting as that was assumed to be so given that it did not even need to be mentioned.

Just like the 1st amendment did not specify free speech using the internet, the second amendment did not specify which arms were considered acceptable.