The money words in 2A are: “the right of the people to keep...”
It doesn’t say ‘store’ in an armory. It doesn’t say separate from you or put any limit on the time you are allowed to keep these arms. It doesn’t say at what age you can have arms or at what age you must give them up. It doesn’t distinguish between male and female, child or adult. It doesn’t set any limit per household or any limit on how many household members may KEEP arms, whatever arms they see fit, or numbers thereof. It does not distinquish between a head of a household separate from the rest of the household. It doesn’t even say household. It says PEOPLE...so it applies equally to ALL people, not necessarily in a household. It does not say A state or THE state has the right to take away or otherwise confiscate arms from any citizen of the several states and lock them away for any reason.
It says to KEEP. Period.
I did say “the people keep and bear Arms”
Also “The people are to be armed by Congress” - BUT, and just to clarify, those arms are in addition to whatever the people have.
Every able bodied male should be issued a military rifle Barrett, HK, etc, be trained, and be tested for proficiency.
Armories are for things like tanks, transports, shoulder launched missles. And stockpiles of light weapons and ammo.
Any move on the stockpile and it’s Lexington & Concord all over again.
Training should be required.
Also open carry should be the norm. It’s pretty simple: don’t pull any sh*t or everyone around you will end it.
Rereading Joyce Lee Malcolm’s book “Guns and Violence”, I think “the people” here was roughly equivalent to what was termed in reference to the 1689 events in England: “Persons of Virtue”. These did not include criminals, children, or insane people.
Sometimes I find myself thinking we would be better off if instead of the 20,000 gun laws on the books, we adhered more closely to the meaning and intent of that phrase Of course, the devil is in the details: how crazy a person? how young a child? how criminal a criminal?