A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. – Second Amendment Perhaps the only group ...

By the time the Second Amendment was ratified ... The idea was not to protect a specific type of weapon, like a musket, any more than the idea of the First Amendment was to protect a specific ...

In my view, the Second Amendment to the US Constitution never ... the individual members had to bring their own arms, muskets. Thus the “...the right to keep and bear arms.” ...