It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the right to maintain a designated "Militia." Dispassionate scholarship suggests quite strongly that the right of the people to keep and bear arms meant just that.
Antonin Scalia (1998). “A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law”, p.137, Princeton University Press
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