>>>The U.S. Supreme Court never got that far. I do concede that, properly interpreted, the second amendment protects the right to keep and bear a full-auto M-16 ... as a registered member of a state Militia (which no longer exists).<<<
Read the opinion again. The court never questioned Miller's assertion that he was in the militia. They only questioned the validity of a sawed-off shotgun as a militia weapon.
Backwards. The decision doesn't contain or even reference an assertion by Jack Miller that "he was in the militia".
As I said, the U.S. Supreme Court never got that far. The Miller decision agreed that only military type arms are constitutionally protected. They remanded the case back to the lower court to make the determination if this shotgun was or was not a weapon that a Militia would use.