Yeeeeeesss. And your point?
If the second amendment isn't referring to state militias, that to what militias is it referring?
The same militia which POTUS can call up.
The same one that they were referring to in the Militia Act of 1792? That act speaks of "the militia":
, singular. Except in one place where refers to militias then existing as independent units, some not organized by local or state goverments, but "free standing" as it were.
I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia,.
Later, and current law, defined(s) "the militia" as consisting of all males 18-45, rather than speaking of them being required to enroll in the militia.
The same one that they were referring to in the Militia Act of 1792? That act speaks of "the militia":
, singular. Except in one place where refers to militias then existing as independent units, some not organized by local or state goverments, but "free standing" as it were.
I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia,.
Later, and current law, defined(s) "the militia" as consisting of all males 18-45, rather than speaking of them being required to enroll in the militia.