[DBrow]

There is nothing about additional rights or regulations in the section about Marque and Reprisal.

I think they assumed you'd go get what was needed.

It does seem odd by today's policed and monitored world, with standing armies and a huge Federal government, that people would need access to heavy weaponry, but if you look at what people actually did back then, it was not considered odd or unusual. Like "privateers", or even some communities. Lots of old towns still have powderhouses, though the eight pounder in the commons is filled with concrete these days.

[meyer]

"It does seem odd by today's policed and monitored world, with standing armies and a huge Federal government, that people would need access to heavy weaponry,..."

Frankly, given today's policed and monitored world with huge standing armies and a huge Federal government, it seems very odd that people would NOT need access to heavy weaponry.

The purpose of the second amendment is not about hunting but about securing the free state of the people. That free state cannot be secured as long as the government maintains a monopoly on weaponry.