Too bad the founders did not define “shall not be infringed” in the Constitution....../s
The State Supreme Court of GA gave a great reading on the 2nd Amendment.
* Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”
And in the Dred Scott Decision Taney tried show why Blacks were not citizens of the US by listing what rights Citizens had, and one of those rights was ...”To keep and carry arms wherever they went.”