>Today's militia is the national guard (and state defense force). They certainly have military grade arms. That's linguistically consistent with the bill of rig

>Today's militia is the national guard (and state defense force). They certainly have military grade arms. That's linguistically consistent with the bill of rights. These organizations are still controlled by their state governments, and the National Guard can, and does, deploy in support of operations overseas - a Federal-level operation. To think that this is comparable to what the Founders thought of as militias at the time is just not true. Their position is even more clear in The Federal Papers.