[William Tell]

robertpaulsen said: "10 USC 311 describes the organization that replaced the well regulated state militia described in The Militia Act of 1792 (an attempt to standardize the independent and individual state militias)."

Is it your claim then that the Federal government cannot disarm the individual state militias, but that the federal government can replace them with something which can be disarmed by the federal government? Wouldn't this constitute an illegal attempt to amend the Constitution?

[robertpaulsen]

"... but that the federal government can replace them with something ..."

By "replaced", I meant "filled the gap", "substituted", along those lines.

The state militias went away. The states are free to bring them back.