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The protection of the Second Amendment did not mean that only the militia are allowed guns. It meant that the federal government could not decide whether the citizenry in any given State was allowed to have guns or not, in order to protect the ability of the State to have a militia that it could draw on if it wanted to. The State was perfectly free to decide whether or not to allow individuals to be armed (and with what weapons), and the federal government could not butt into that.

Then it comes down to whether or not being armed is an individual right. It is, and recent cases have settled that.

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