07-21-2018, 10:30 AM
stanc Wrote:First, the militia system that required all able-bodied, military-age males to serve in state militias -- and provide their own individual weapons -- ceased to exist.If this is true, please show me the law or statute that made the unorganized militia null and void? If your statement is true then explain why a federal district ruling that a Washington, D.C. law banning handguns and requiring other firearms to be stored unloaded or locked unconstitutional on Second Amendment grounds.Oct 17, 2008. Under what part of the 2nd A are gun rights up held if the unorganized militia is null and void?
stanc Wrote:The modern National Guard, as well as the official state militias that still survive, issue all required arms, eliminating the need for members to provide their own.Once again, please show me the law or statute where the unorganized militia was disbanded and no longer considered relevant?
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.a) To be eligible for original enlistment in the National Guard, a person must be at least 17 years of age and under 45, or under 64 years of age and a former member of the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps. To be eligible for reenlistment, a person must be under 64 years of age.
(b) The classes of the militia are
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
stanc Wrote:Then there's the matter of the NFA, and state laws that restrict or prohibit private ownership of automatic weapons, laws that are pretty much impossible to repeal.This I agree with except for state laws. There have been numerous state anti-gun laws which have been repealed but on a whole you are correct.
stanc Wrote:From a practical standpoint, it doesn't really matter much if they have the right, as long as the courts -- and the people -- allow such violations to be perpetrated.This I also agree with. If a right is not exorcised and allowed to be attacked with little response or with apathy then the right really doesn't matter.

