[beltfed308]

That should be a decision made by each state as to how they wish to maintain their militia.

That appears nowhere in the Militia Act and you know it. Lets stick to the time-line your trying to use to defend your argument. The TIME and DATE the 2nd was ratified.

[Dead Corpse]

Interesting. There are still some 17,000+ claims for reimbursement from the War of 1812 that were never paid out to the militiamen who showed up for service bearing their own arms and equipment. http://www.genealogy.org/db.asp?dbid=3883

Gotta sign up for their genealogy service to get at the records themselves though...

[robertpaulsen]

"That appears nowhere in the Militia Act and you know it."

Yes I know it. I never said it did. Since when would a state decision appear in a Congressional Act?

I gave my opinion and said that it should be a state decision as to how they handle their Militia. If they want the weapons to go home, or if they want them stored in an armory, that's up to each state.