Subject: Re: Another Win For President Trump
1pgNo, let's sign me up for "there is no militia anymore, so the feds can ban whatever they like".

You should read the Federalist Papers. The militia...was the citizenry

Reading the Constitution is enough. We ratified the Constitution.

Article I, Section 8
The Militia Clauses

Clause 15. The Congress shall have Power * * * To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.

Clause 16. The Congress shall have Power * * * To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.

Then you go to the code:

10 U.S. Code § 246 - Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

Me: Modernly, the unorganized militia is the pool of men (a)(see above) that both the Fed and State can enlist and draft from. There are no self appointed militias. So, Dope, we defined in the Constitution who had the powers regarding the militia and Congress has the largest power. Modernly, the cases give the Federal Government almost all the power.