That is not how the Founders governed. The private ownership of firearms outside any militia is well documented. Settlers did not get a militia escort and guard contingent, they were expected to fend for themselves, with privately owned firearms. Nor were private citizens restricted to just personal firearms, they could and did purchase the most deadly weapons of their time, artillery. None of which had anything to do with militias. You folks are simply wrong.Probably not.
It most likely means exactly what it says.
Not
Otherwise that would be what was written.
But that is not what was written.
Instead it says...
A Well REGULATED militia.
As in regulated and CONTROLLED by the government.
Not the firearm free-for-all we currently have going on in this country.
This wasn't the intent of the founders and author of 2A.