Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

I am sure in that 1791 after just gaining independence and with only a army reduced in strength to 800 men, to protect settlers and fight Indian wars in the Northwest Territory ;and without a standing army for the protection of this uncertain union of heretofore separate states, it makes se...