[smoketree]

National Guard is not the militia.
The militia is those OUTSIDE of the uniformed services.

[Dead Corpse]

Of course it isn't. It isn't even guarding the Nation right now but is deployed to Iraq.

However, as the ruling above correctly states:

Pg 13. The provision’s second comma divides the Amendment into two clauses; the first is prefatory, and the second operative. Appellants’ argument is focused on their reading of the Second Amendment’s operative clause. According to appellants, the Amendment’s language flat out guarantees an individual right “to keep and bear Arms.” Appellants concede that the prefatory clause expresses a civic purpose, but argue that this purpose, while it may inform the meaning of an ambiguous term like “Arms,” does not qualify the right guaranteed by the operative portion of the Amendment.

Well... duh.

They spend the next five or six pages discussing why robertpaulsen is completely off his nut and a total Brady Bunch shill...

[Texas Federalist]

National Guard is not the militia. The militia is those OUTSIDE of the uniformed services.

Exactly! The select militia acted as a national guard during the time of the founding, and was clearly separate from the generally understood meaning of the "militia", which was the citizenry outside uniformed services.