General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: The Militia Acts of 1792 and 1795 clarified what the 2nd Amendment means. [View all]jmg257
(11,996 posts)II. And be it further enacted, That the Vice-President of the United States, the Officers, judicial and executives, of the government of the United States; the members of both houses of Congress, and their respective officers; all custom house officers, with the clerks; all post officers, and stage-drivers who are employed in the care and conveyance of the mail of the post office of the United States; all Ferrymen employed at any ferry on the post road; all inspectors of exports; all pilots, all mariners actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States; and all persons who now are or may be hereafter exempted by the laws of the respective states, shall be and are hereby exempted from militia duty, notwithstanding their being above the age of eighteen and under the age of forty-five years.
Awful lot of important people to have no right to arms, a huge junk of which being the same ones who wrote the law, and amendment.