[ctdonath2]

Several “original” copies of the BoR are inconsistent on comma usage. Considering that other contemporary documents freely included or excluded commas, apparently commas were more optional decoration than definitive indicators of meaning.

Even if we go with the 3-comma version as definitive, what we end up with is a statement amounting to “a well-regulated militia IS the people keeping and bearing arms, whose right shall not be infringed”.

[Old North State]

I think that if the you argue that the right of the people to keep arms is dependent on the need for a militia then it would be incumbent on you to make the argument that the militia is no longer necessary and then get enough votes to amend the constitution. The right is clearly enunciated and should not be canceled by interpretation. It is, as are all parts of the constitution, open to change by amendment but no one, not even the supreme court has the right just to nullify what they don’t like by fiat.