Gura counters that Miller explains that when people are called to militia duty, “they are expected to bring arms supplied by themselves. Clearly to the extent that the Founders were concerned about preserving the militia, they saw the right to keep and bear arms as essential to that purpose. Which is not to say that’s the only purpose they had in mind.” I guess Gura would be quite happy with repeal of the National Firearms Act, at least in so far as it concerns full auto machine guns.
I'll take an M-16, an M-14 and maybe an M-249. I don't think I could afford to feed an M-2, or I'd get one of those too. Not mention an M-203 for the M-16, ammo for it and the rest, and a few of these for self defense:
But I suspect his "respect" for the "militia arms only" theory would tend to evaporate in the face of private ownership, with no license, no tax, nothing beyond a simple background check, if that.
Besides my handguns are in .45 ACP, and one of those is a 1911A1, what could be better than that for a lowly Captain of Militia. My long gun is in 7.62x51 NATO, my short long gun is an M-1 Carbine. Militia arms all. But I would like to replace the 7.62 with an M-14 or perhaps a select fire version of an AR-10 or similar weapon, and the M-1 with an M-2. Well I also have something in 7.62x39, but the design is strictly semiautomatic and if I was going to have another one it would be select fire, maybe an M-16 type in that caliber.
I guess Gura would be quite happy with repeal of the National Firearms Act While he likely actually would be, I see I commingled in my mind Gura's "preservation of the militia" argument against the ban, with Gossett's arguments about "militia only" argument. And worse, I got Gura confused with Gossett.That's what I get for trying to FReep and watch "In Harm's Way" at the same time, while also keeping the dog amused with his favorite game, about his only game, that is "fetch".
In any event, I suspect Gossett wouldn't be too happy about militia members, basically all males 17-45 plus female National Guardsmen, by federal law, but in some states all citizens, male and female, with varying age ranges (18-60 in Texas, I've got a couple more years.), owning those weapons I mentioned even though they are very sorts of weapons that a militia would need to help defend the country, against a foreign invasion, or a rogue government, which are the two most mentioned "missions" for the militia in the writings of the founding fathers.