Got the local gun entusiasts riled up today.

[TheKentuckian]

31. Like some folks like to stick on the militia rationale and ignore that the right of the people

to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The people have the right to keep and bear arms whether they participate in a militia or not.

No question that militia should be well equipped and trained. I even think that everyone of military age should participate but the right of the people to keep and bear arms is not infringed either way.

Shall not be infringed is pretty precise language, I'd say the machine gun "ban" is even unconstitutional, taxes and red tape sure sounds like infringement to me but that was a semantical side step by defining the class as destructive devices rather than "arms". I call nonsense but due to lack of common use and and high profile crime use spawned by prohibition it flew. The argument doesn't work for a modern semiautomatic, we are way past the common use threshold by decades. Nobody is taking out a bridge or knocking down a building. There is no pushing a button and wiping out hundreds, thousands, or millions.