“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
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Age limitation?
If I stretch it, maybe old enough to read the 2a, and understand it.
Or old enough to obey their parents (well regulated).
You would love this ruling from the Georgia State Supreme Court in 1846 after the state banned handguns back then.
19. * Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”
“Well regulated” Of course going by the well known adage that “An army marches on its stomach.” It may be that being “well regulated” takes on an entirely different connotation.