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..in reference to the militias, not the arms. Meaning training and proficiency.


Yep, and who gets to set the standards for training and proficiency? And what exactly is a "militia"? Surely it's not random people with firearms. That would not be very well regulated (in any sense), would it?


That reasoning was pretty much explicitly shot down in Heller.

"To promote X, you have right Y" does not mean the existence of right Y is dependent on X.




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