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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The well regulated Militia throws in a bit of wiggle room for some to interpret it in a states right way. What was a "well regulated Militia"? Who was in and who ran the Militia at the time the constitution was written? there is a comma and the sentence "the right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed" The key work here for me is people. Not state nor militia but people. we are the people each individual all together makes up the people. Not the state government not the federal government but the individual. Personally I think you have to stretch a long way to make it say its a state right.
At the time of the writing of the US Constitution, the term "Well Regulated" meant in good working order, since also at that time the Militia was made up of able bodied males; and those people were expected to come to the aid of the militia with their own weapons, it was expected that the people in the militia were to be armed.
And +1 to what Froglipz indicated.
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