@sneakypete The people ARE the militia,and the militia IS the people.
Unfortunately, what we have here is a failure....the definition in common use has changed in the last 200+ years, which is why I included the contemporary reference that defines "Militia" as "The Army, in its entirety."
That is the usage the Founders would have meant when they wrote the Amendment. Not the statement that the people were, in essence the Army, which they actually were in the forming United States.
Tell me the snowflakes and no-T pajamaboys out there are the Army now, the brigades of vagina hat wearers, the legions of BLM, and we just might have a problem when the SHTF. We have specialized a tad since then.
The right
OF THE PEOPLE to Keep
and Bear Arms reserves the right to the people, and not just the army. Yes that includes the ones I cited above, but it includes mothers of small children, great grandpas, office workers, and the like, the good with the not so good. Arguably, the NFA of '34 is unconstitutional, too, considering
Miller was never defended before a court ignorant of the military use of shotguns.