I always enjoy reading Albaby, and would love to learn how to write like him, but there's not enough time left. This is a general reply and not directed at anyone or anything.

I see beliefs expressed by the right not represented here. Militia in the prefatory clause means they are entitled to weapons that would put them on par with the US Military. I remind them they have an individual right unconnected to the militia. They cite law on organized and unorganized militia. I point out the organized militia by law is the National Guard, and the unorganized militia is the pool of able bodied men (and women) the Federal Government and the State may look to for enlistment and draft purposes. That there is no self appointed militia. You can have a club and call yourself a militia, but that has nothing to do with Constitutional militia.

They see the individual rights in the 2d Amendment as unlimited. Any limitation is an "infringement". They see Scalia's dicta in Heller recognizing long held prohibitions on "dangerous and unusual weapons", etc., as problematic. I point to Federalist 29 in which Hamilton states the Militia is subject to regulation by the Federal Government, and that each state's representation in the legislature should counter an misuse of the military(represented by the militia) as a standing military was not contemplated at that time. Tired, stopping here.