Saw that episode when I was a little boy. Even then it PO'd me. What the "All in the Family" script writers would not dare admit is that, at the time the Constitution was written, “well-regulated” meant well equipped, and that this simply described the purpose of the 2nd Amendment - to create a large pool of well equipped militia. As for the militia, who are they? The are the people - ALL of the people who are not slaves or criminals (and Andy Jackson got a lot of help at New Orleans from criminals - pirates - and was glad of it!).
The actual purpose of the Second Amendment is documented in the commentary of the time, The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers. Funny how nobody goes back to the source...
What’s really comical about that episode is the writer’s complete ignorance of the Sullivan Act, which meant that Archie Bunker would have a felony arrest and conviction for owning the handgun.