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. This is just the basic gist of it
The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America (or Amendment II) protects the right of the American people to possess and bear arms. ... The Second Amendment establishes that neither the federal government of the United States nor the state and local governments can infringe the right to bear arms.
True. A number of soldiers within the Continental Army, and especially Washington's during the Valley Forge incident would desert due to the poor conditions the army and campaign were in.
