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As to the "National Guard" argument, that argument has risen in the last twenty years. Almost no serious anti-gun group uses it because const. scholars of all ideology have agreed that it holds no const. weight. It simply was not the intent of the FF (that's founding fathers, not Fantastic Four) to make it a national guard. The intent was to allow non-governmental groups to have guns to prevent a rise in tyranny. Think about the political climate of the times. The FF wanted to assure that the government was a government of the people by leaving a little fear of the masses in the hearts of the elite (which was suprising seeing as how the FF WERE to be be the elite).
My bad. That was just laziness on my part when I posted that. Maybe we should get a real lawyer in here... 
