[Hugh R]

Back in the 1700s we didn't have a draft. Hence we had the militia, which was you and your neighbors coming together to provide for the common defense. So meof you are assuming that because we had a draft for many years, and now have a standing army/air force/navy, etc. that the right to keep and bear arms was somehow taken away by legislative fiat.

You don't want to own a gun, don't buy one. Show me the part of the constitution that says I can't own one. I have no problem with reasonable regulation, the problem is who gets to say what is reasonable? I remember a decade or more ago in Texas you could go to a 24 hour hunting supply/liquor store and buy a gun at 3AM and a bottle of whiskey and walk out with both, as long as you had a Texas drivers license. That's a little too loose for me.