martybegan
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Shall not be infringed.....
a well-regulated militia, dum dum
The States get the right to a Militia, the People get the RKBA.
Commas mean things.
that isn't how it was written and isn't how it was intented. and every judge until scalia knew that.
but we can pretend.
It was the intent, you just won't admit it.
Prior to the Civil War the US Army was tiny, and the nation relied on the State Militias, which were guaranteed to the States as part of the Constitution.
Some Militias had armories with stored arms, others relied on the People to bring their own weapons.
It doesn't change the fact that the PEOPLE keep the RKBA, not the State. If it was intended solely for the States to have militias and set them up as they saw fit, the framers wouldn't have left THE PEOPLE the right they gave them.