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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (482873)	10/28/2003 4:52:37 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The NRA is just trying to say that if there are 20,000 laws on the books and I don't know how many there are and don't really care, then there is a good chance there are are redundancies and regulations that don't provide any additional security and are essentially paperwork busywork for somebody. As far as militia vs individual check 10 USC Section 311. I think thats right citation in Federal Law. All males between the ages of 18 and 45 are by Federal Law part of the Militia, an unorganized militia. There are several levels of militia. The unorganized milita of individuals who are ready to be organized, the organized militia who are already serving in some capacity at the state or local level, and the Federal Standing Army. The National Guard is 100% Federalized and as such is not the organized militia of the States and local populices and is certainly not the unorganized militia prescribed in the 2nd Amendment. The previous is a summary of some the scholarship on the 2nd Amendment. Notice the 2nd Amendment also says People have the right...not the State, not the Congress, not the National Guard..to keep (civilian meaning to keep guns in the home) and bear (military meaning to carry weapons as part of organized militia). With every male between the ages of 18 and 45 automatically part of the unorganized militia, wouldn't you expect these people to be able to train on militia-type military weapons in common use by the National Guard and Federal STanding Army so they are proficient marksmen when organized? Thats what the 2nd Amendment really means and what the founders intended and ignoring it and running activist judges around it is not the prescribed procedure in the constitution for changing it. The truth is the anti-gunners lack the supermajority necessary to ever change what the 2nd Amendment means as I outlined above.