A “well-regulated” militia simply meant that the processes for activating, training, and deploying the militia in official service should be efficient and orderly, and that the militia itself ...

As the death toll from gun violence mounts, we are told that because of the Second Amendment nothing can be done to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. That is ...

“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.” —BILL OF RIGHTS A foundation of American ...

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.” There are 30,000-gun deaths yearly. Thirty-three ...

AMENDMENT II (1791): “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. There it is and that is ...

AMENDMENT 2. 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. AMENDMENT 3. No Soldier shall ...

(19-22) (b) The relevant question for the prefatory clause (“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State”) is whether it is consistent with our reading of the ...

Regarding Jan. 26, Justin Davis “Firearms rights are under assault in Maine”: The Second Amendment of the Constitution is a mere 27 words but the gun lobby folks never mention the first 13 words, “A ...