Protestant citizens have the right to possess arms for their defense, "suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law"
When they wrote the 2A it wasn't pulled out of thin air, or invented by American conditions. It was the rights of free Englishmen passed on not just from the Bill of Rights and Magna Carta, but common law as well; enshrined in a manner that guaranteed it better than the arbitrary legislation of the crown.
English bill of rights 1689
When they wrote the 2A it wasn't pulled out of thin air, or invented by American conditions. It was the rights of free Englishmen passed on not just from the Bill of Rights and Magna Carta, but common law as well; enshrined in a manner that guaranteed it better than the arbitrary legislation of the crown.