Second Amendment Scholar Says Gun Regulations Were Part of Original Intent of Founders

"A well regulated militia" meant well trained and well practiced........not "regulated" as in subjected to prohibitive oppressive laws, rules and regulations.
 
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Up there with the "scholars" on public radio this morning spewing this country was founded by white supremacists blah blah blah.

So they were regulating who could buy muskets, black powder, and lead in 1776. The same farmers and hunters who made up the militia.
 
It's been established many times that "well regulated" in 1782 meant "in proper working order" or the equivalent of "calibrated" today.

The founders were against having standing armies and having an armed populace properly skilled and equipped as a militia capable of volunteering to rise to the national defense was essential to the security of the state. A nation of "minutemen" was clearly the intent.

Look at how the founders organized the armed forces. The army, volunteers in state militias with a professional officer corps in reserve to lead if needed, was to be solely for national defense and it was the navy with marines which was to be the fighting power to deal with foreign powers abroad; or at least try to keep them from getting across the oceans.
 
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He should read Federalist 29:

...if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.
 
He's definitely an enemy of the 2A, and has actively tried to subvert it in his prior role with that "think tank".

However, if you actually listen to that interview, he does say that "well regulated" implies that militia members are to be well equipped and all should have a military style firearm. He didn't bring it up as bluntly in an effort to correct the frequently misused "well regulated" phrase, but he did mention it.

I wish people here would actually read articles, listen to audio, or watch videos posted before commenting on them. But I guess that's too hard when you're just set on sounding off in an echo chamber.
 
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