A well regulated militia

That pertains to the National guard. Which regulated and run by the states. Infringement is when the federal government holds them in a federal states when the state calls them into action. Or denying states military weaponry ordered for national guards.

The National guard is a state militia. Its why the commander in chiefs of the national guard is the state governor of the state in which a guard unit is based out of. The right to keep and bare arms in a well regulated militia pertains to states access to arms that are independent of federal government control.

This unfettered marketing of weapons of war to every whack job does not fit the standards of a "well regulated militia" requiring a psychiatric evaluation by the same psychiatrists who are involved in pre law enforcement employment screening is legal and falls in the scope of a "well regulated militia.

Graylight · 51-55, F

It is officially created under Congress's Article 1 Section 8, ability to 'raise and support armies'. All members of the National Guard are also members of the organized militia of the United States as defined by 10 U.S.C. § 246. National Guard units are under the dual control of the state governments and the federal government.

The National Guard is a joint activity of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) composed of reserve components of the United States Army and the United States Air Force: the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard, respectively.

If you're suggesting the general public may be armed by calling themselves part of the National Guard, that'd be incorrect. Little matter. We don't suffer a tidal wave of militia deaths each year. The people killing themselves and each other are the 'good guys.'

Also, the US Constitution is a 250-year-old document. It's never been said to be handed down from on high, to be infallible or to be unchangeable. In fact, the founding fathers were exceedingly clear on its continual evolution and interpretation.

Montanaman · M

@Graylight #RedDawn. It could happen. China. Russia. North Korea. Its a real scenario. Let alone the threat of nuclear attack is as prevalent today as was in the cold war in the 60's. Wake up!

Johnson212 · 61-69, M

If you were well read on the founding documents you would know that your equivication of the national guard being a well regulated militia under the 2nd ammendment was totally off base. Or if you would read the US Supreme Courts explination you would know it is an individual right belonging to the people.