re: How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment

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I believe it was intended for military purposes.

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For a government document (2A is in the Bill of Rights, by the way) to guarantee the right of a government to maintain a military? The founders considered the militia and the regular army as 2 very different things - and their use of militia is far different than the way the word is used today.

Having said that - again this article of the "Bill of Rights" - is between:

I. Congress shall make no law...

and,

III. No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house...

I'm just reading it as a series of protections spelled out, to protect the people from overarching government (one the drafters had just shaken off.)

Maybe I'm the crazy one...