Supreme Court to Look at 2nd Amendment

Originally Posted by xiaowei

Iraqi insurgents don't seem to have too much of a problem.

Iraqi insurgents are also more likely to be armed with military grade weaponry. In the United States, ownership of such weaponry can range from restricted to illegal, depending on what just it is.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Adamgian1

Except it was meant to extend to the same crowd. The militia of the old days was the National Guard of today and it was the last bastion of the security of a free state. All it really stipulates to me is that the National Guard must exist and be armed and under the jurisdiction of the states.

Your clever attempt argue that the right to keep and bear arms is restricted to members of the National Guard based on the phrase "well-regulated militia" comes with significant flaws.

The first is that several states have militias seperate from the National Guard.

The second is that federal law (specifically, the Militia Act of 1903) stipulates that all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 45 are members of the Reserve Militia.

The third is that someone in the Justice Department already tried to make the argument you are in federal court; the court rejected it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.