The Second Amendment and the Right to Bar Arms

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The framers were unhappy about being told they couldn't hold guns for a lot of reasons. Legal scholars in the late nineteenth century warned against the coming misinterpretation of the second amendment. It's an imperfect analogy, but much like you might pull a jury from the general population, you would pull a militia from a citizenry that was already presumed to be armed.