The trouble is, the Second Amendment is notoriously confusing. Stating: "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," the amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear arms, but does so with a caveat, qualifying the right by couching it in terms of a military organization.The second sentence is not true. The phrase a well regulated militia does not qualify/restrict anything. In the parlance of the day it is what is known as a present participle and that does not restrict the meaning of the latter phrase the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.