2nd Amendment: Militia= The National Guard?

Thanks Bob, that was exactly what I was going to point out. It's actually the precise argument I used on the debate team back when I was in high school and we were debating a bill on the right to bear arms.

Yet another example of something the Founding Fathers made clear, but courts and "judges" can't seem to understand.

Actually, the supreme court, despite some liberal leanings, has consistently subscribed to this point of view in every decision it has mad on the subject. The only decision with any advantage to the anti gunners was when they decided the 2nd amendment only applied to legitimate military arms and allowed a sawed off shotgun to be outlawed. In this case the defendants fled the country and, having no client, the defense could make no argument. Had he made an argument no arms could be blocked.

Short barreled shotguns show up in military and police circles as trench guns, tunnel guns, riot guns and street sweepers. The derringer and Saturday night special arguments die on the "freedom gun" commissioned by the US military in WWII and made from spare parts. It had a 2.5 inch smooth bore barrel, no safty and was designed in a way to make it cheap and disposable. It would fall apart and be useless with in the first dozen shots because it wasn't made for durability. The war dept designed it, commissioned thousands, purchased them and delivered them to the field of battle. Virtually every other firearm design know has been used in some form or another by militaries and therefore all are protected under the second amendment according to this decision. Only politicians and lower courts have ever tried to undermine the second amendment and none of those laws or decisions has ever been upheld in the supreme court.
Recent decisions based on international laws when the constitution didn't give a justice what he wanted imply that it is possible this will change but even in their most recent decision a few months ago they failed to uphold gun control laws.