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by ascorbic 3029 days ago
Well regulated
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As in "regular" - practiced, and uniform.

It's hard to argue that a militia is "well regulated" when arms aren't generally available.

A well regulated militia
"It was clearly an individual right, having nothing whatever to do with service in a militia..."

"There seems to us no doubt, on the basis of both text and history, that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms."

- Justice Scalia

DC vs. Heller https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZO.html

"The right of the people...shall not be infringed"