Who are the Militia?

[jimmy the one]

75. 1828 websters, again, on well regulated

dwc: Your high volume of verbiage Can not hide your total absence of content relevant to his plain and accurate statement. If one has something of value to impart, it rarely takes many words to state it.

I surmise you've never read the high volume of verbiage in the constitution then? I read 20 - 30 books per year, writing is fun, & your tailing merely an expedient.
Tench Coxe's 'plain & accurate statement'? it's ambiguous, are you blind? and coxe was a gun salesman, quelle surprise he wanted people to own private guns: Every man should own a gun to defend our liberty to go hunting & defend his home, to arms, to arms, let every man be armed. And for this month only, buy one firearm of any kind & get a half pound powder free! Buy now before pres Adams imposes gun restrictions soon, then you can kiss your gun rights goodbye!

(my previous post): Wm Duane, charged that Purveyor Coxe had accepted large quantities of inferior firearms. Duane made the sweeping allegation "that arms we had seen, which had been manufactured for the MONEY (for we cannot say the use) of the United States, were better adapted to kill American soldiers into whose hands they should be put, than an enemy.
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beevul: The "well regulated" which I refer to, is the "well regulated" in amendment 2. It does in fact mean well equipped.

Here's websters 1828 dictionary, pls point out exactly where 'regulated' is defined as meaning 'equipped'.

1 REG'ULATED, pp. Adjusted by rule, method or forms; put in good order; subjected to rules or restrictions.
2 REG'ULATE, v.t.1. To adjust by rule, method or established mode; as, to regulate weights and measures; to regulate the assize of bread; to regulate our moral conduct by the laws of God and of society; to regulate our manners by the customary forms.
2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
3. To subject to rules or restrictions; as, to regulate trade; to regulate diet.
http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/regulate