Reply #8: Of course it's silly. The main purpose was to require the new govt had use of effective militias.

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Wouldn't do them ANY good if the States could deprive them of those effective forces, especially by interfering with their arms (including handguns, which were included in the arms the people provide themselves with).

Of course another primary purpose was to make sure that the feds couldn't abuse their new militia powers to deprive the people of the right to arms, whether related to the militia or not (and also deprive the states of effective miltias too - their only means of defense).


Most certainly, the states should be able to infringe on the right to arms NO MORE then the feds should.