Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Who are the Militia? [View all]jmg257
(11,996 posts)"To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;" "
"The Militia Act of 1792, Passed May 8, 1792, providing federal standards for the organization of the Militia.
An ACT more effectually to provide for the National Defence, by establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States.
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VII. And be it further enacted, That the rules of discipline, approved and established by Congress, in their resolution of the twenty-ninth of March, 1779, shall be the rules of discipline so be observed by the militia throughout the United States, except such deviations from the said rules, as may be rendered necessary by the requisitions of the Act, or by some other unavoidable circumstances. It shall be the duty of the Commanding Officer as every muster, whether by battalion, regiment, or single company, to cause the militia to be exercised and trained, agreeably to the said rules of said discipline."
"To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia"
Uniform, trained/disciplined, well-armed.
The rest is interesting, but does little to refer to the primary purpose of the 2nd - securing the militias to remove the pretext for those bain of liberty - large standing armies.
That you can find quite clearly in the debates concerning those propsed articles which became the Bill of Rights. Stangely - or not really, not 1 - not ANY mention of the need for arms for self-defense, in days of debates.