>Your 2a explicitly states that firearms need militia to be effective. You're reading that backwards. Militias are necessary to the security of a free state, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. It is the militia who need guns, not the guns who need a militia. > organization training and leadership guns are no match to soldiers Tell this to partisans, nva, taliban, etc throughout history. If I needed to hold an area over an extended period 20 yokel locals are preferable to 4 trained soldiers. In practice, the numbers and sympathies are with the militias and their population rather than a standing army. At one point the west was airdropping single shot pistols into occupied territory because all you have to do is get the drop on one person and take their weapon then you're as well equipped as they are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator