The constitution is limitations on the government, not citizens. It doesn’t mean citizens only have the right to own weapons for militia use, it just means the

The constitution is limitations on the government, not citizens. It doesn’t mean citizens only have the right to own weapons for militia use, it just means the government cannot restrict them for such. How the NRA rewrote the the 2A: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-nra-rewrote-second-amendment https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-... The decision to legally depower the first clause of the 2A came in 2008, not 2013, sorry about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller In the 18 and 19th century, commentary around the 2A included the militia requirement, focusing more on what a militia was than if it was a requirement at all (see wiki commentary section in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United...). The idea that militia isn’t a requirement doesn’t even come into play until the late 20th century and is legally deleted in the 21st.