RKBA: How far do we need to go into this?
Well... let's take a look at this, and see what it means?
The first definition in question is: Regulate
The second definition in question is: Militia
So, when you look at these (2) definitions, you are saying that the 2nd amendment means: "To control or direct by rule, principal or law the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call for military service." I, personally, stick to the second belief in the Militia, because it was believed by many (but not all of the founders) that the law of arms was put into place to defend against a potentially tyrannical government. Does this seem like it would be likely to happen? No... but if you had said to the founding fathers that you would be able to get printed media sent to a small box in your hands in seconds across the air, they might have been laughed at as well... so anything can happen given enough time and technology.
Most of the recent federal gun laws are found in the following acts:
National Firearms Act ("NFA") (1934): Taxes the manufacture and transfer of, and mandates the registration of Title II weapons such as machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, heavy weapons, explosive ordnance, silencers, and disguised or improvised firearms.
Federal Firearms Act of 1938 ("FFA"): Requires that gun manufacturers, importers, and persons in the business of selling firearms have a Federal Firearms License (FFL). Prohibits the transfer of firearms to certain classes of persons, such as convicted felons.
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (1968): Prohibited interstate trade in handguns, increased the minimum age to 21 for buying handguns.
Gun Control Act of 1968 ("GCA"): Focuses primarily on regulating interstate commerce in firearms by generally prohibiting interstate firearms transfers except among licensed manufacturers, dealers and importers.
Firearm Owners Protection Act ("FOPA") (1986): Revised and partially repealed the Gun Control Act of 1968. Prohibited the sale to civilians of automatic firearms manufactured after the date of the law's passage. Required ATF approval of transfers of automatic firearms.
Undetectable Firearms Act (1988): Effectively criminalizes, with a few exceptions, the manufacture, importation, sale, shipment, delivery, possession, transfer, or receipt of firearms with less than 3.7 oz of metal content.
Gun-Free School Zones Act (1990): Prohibits unauthorized individuals from knowingly possessing a firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone.
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (1993): Requires background checks on most firearm purchasers, depending on seller and venue.
Federal Assault Weapons Ban (1994–2004): Banned semiautomatics that looked like assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices. The law expired in 2004.
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (2005): Prevent firearms manufacturers and licensed dealers from being held liable for negligence when crimes have been committed with their products.
Can someone from the left please explain to me how they feel more laws, on top of these 10 that have all come about in the last 80 years (8 of those in 50 years, and 5 of them just since 1988. And these are just the major laws that have been put into effect, not including any number of them that are minor or at the individual state level.