Second Amendment grammar -- the Framers parsed it one way, but will the Supreme Court agree with their analysis? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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"Well-regulated" is also subject to historical misinterpretation.  At
the time of its writing, it probably meant "in good order" or something
like that.  It likely didn't mean that it was a militia subject to a
number of formal regulations

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> It is difficult to argue that the present National Guard is
> _not_ "a well-regulated militia."  Just what that
> interpretation may mean to the import of the amendment I
> leave to others.
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>   JL
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> My question is: when are they going to get around to
> organizing this well-regulated militia? It's been two-hundred years!
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