Gun_Control

Gun Control A Militia The word "militia" has several meanings. It can be a body of citizens (no longer exclusively male) enrolled for military service where full time duty is required only in emergencies. The term also refers to the eligible pool of citizens callable into military service. The federal government can use the militia for the following purposes as stated in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution: To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions; Is today's National Guard the militia' It is a part of the well-regulated militia, and as mentioned in GunCite's, The Original Intent and Purpose of the Second Amendment, it was not the intent of the framers to restrict the right to keep arms to a militia let alone a well-regulated one. Once a member of a State Guard unit is ordered into active military service of the United States, that person is no longer under the command of, or serving, a State Guard unit (until they are relieved from federal service), but is now a member of the army. (See the Supreme Court case Perpich v. Department of Defense, 496 U.S. 334 (1990) for right, rights, militia, people, states, arms, amendment, quotthe, article, regulated, individual, government, one, bear, state, bill, quotthat, keep, united, second, military, meant, freedom, fourth, definition, declaration, shall, service, peoplequot, good, federal, constitution, writing, time, quotto