A “well-regulated” militia simply meant that the processes for activating, training, and deploying the militia in official service should be efficient and orderly, and that the militia itself ...

The militia could be based on conscription: The original language of the Second Amendment included a clause excluding conscientious objectors from compulsory service in the militia.

AMENDMENT II (1791): “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

“A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.” Where and by whom does Illinois, Alaska, or ...

A militia, by definition, is a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency. Therefore, every application for a permit to own a military ...

To suggest that, in providing for a well-regulated militia, the Founders were condemning their descendants to cower under a reign of un regulated firepower, was to trade in absurdity.

Proponents of gun control have long pointed to the Second Amendment’s prefatory clause — “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State” — as a necessary ...

A closer look at that whole “well-regulated militia” in the Second Amendment.

“That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear ...

Did he bother to explain how a person under 21 (or over 21) in this day and age constitutes a well-regulated militia? In revolutionary times, many combatants might have been part of a militia.

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Rarely do you read this entire Second Amendment to ...

The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 uses “well-regulated” and “trained” in the same passage.