[JimRed]

I have wondered about that as well. I wonder if the modern modern equivalent might be "a well trained militia", "an organized and disciplined militia", or "a highly ready response force" might be closer to what they meant, rather than the modern connotation of regulations as restrictions or limitations. I guess that minutemen were the model of the day.

But the amendment simply acknowledged the need for and desirability of having a militia; it said nothing about restricting arms to members thereof.

[lepton]

Restricting arms to the militia is a meaningless limit...since the militia is “the whole of the people”.

So maybe it limits non-people... Didn’t Dred Scott v. Stanford (sic) try that?