stanc Wrote::confused: According to that link, the unorganized militia consists only of able-bodied males 17-45 years of age.
That's maybe 25% of the population.
Yes, and old and decrepit people can not join the military. In a national crisis, any and all people can be called to serve. Since the Heller case verified the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm, unconnected with "service" in a militia, it is also reasonable to assume that all people belong to the un-organized militia since all people have the right to bear arms and can be called to serve in a crisis,"Marshal Law". https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-scie...artial-law. There is no historical reference to age discrimination for the right to bear arms because of the inability to serve in the arm forces. If there is, please show me.
When Georgia in 1837 enacted the first ban on pistol ownership, its supreme court promptly struck it down, holding in the process that the second amendment applied to the states. It explained the amendment's meaning: "The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women, and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not merely such as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed ... and this for the important end to be achieved, the rearing up and qualifying of a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free state."