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To: William Tell
I do agree that the SCOTUS can define the term and what Arms the militia is allowed to use.

However, since the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines are members of the militia, anything that the SCOTUS prohibits MUST apply to our military forces.

What arms that the people use against the SCOTUS, if they make the wrong legal decision, will be up to the people of the United States of America.

Arms could be anything from oil on the front steps of their homes, or bacteria in their next meal. They will never know, until it is too late.

44 posted on 03/21/2008 11:43:46 AM PDT by Hunble
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To: Hunble
However, since the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines are members of the militia....

Uh, no they aren't. They are the armed forces, not the militia. The armed forces are governed by a different set of rules.

Title 10, Section 311 defines the militia. Paraphrasing, the organized militia is the National Guard and Naval Militia, and the unorganized militia is virtually every other male between 17 and 45 years of age.

Of course, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have access to owning the same infantry weapons that the armed forces use.

55 posted on 03/21/2008 12:32:26 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (An ex-citizen of the Frederation trying to stop Monica's Ex-Boyfriend's Wife from becoming President)
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