After all, the right to bear arms is only in the service of a ‘well regulated’ militia.
Hasn’t this been disproven?
Nothing is ever proven. The “it’s all dependent on the well-regulated militia” legal theory lasted a while and is now no longer the standard used by the Supreme Court, which fairly recently recognized an individual right to keep & bear arms that’s not tied to the first clause of the second amendment at all. Legal theories come and go. It’s not science.
It was influenced by the English Bill of Rights, the first clause is expository and explanatory and does not limit “The RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE” in any way, the “militia” is every able bodied male citizen above the age of 17 with women expected to defend the household from trouble thus the right is guaranteed to “The People” and not to the state militia…