Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Who are the Militia? [View all]jimmy the one
(2,776 posts)In context you were trying to show that pennsy did NOT have a state militia: hans, #88: PA did not have an organized militia until after 1776, the unorganized militia in PA predated the organized militia. Read the various state militia acts, they had both train bands (those currently in training) and call lists.
You evidently thought trainbands were rudimentary 'unorganized' militia in training. Trainbands were somewhat organized militia, just smaller companies (couple hundred(s) etc).
You also misspelled trainband, separating into 2 words train & band, as if to say a band of men under training. Misspelling is excusable, except it implies you were under a misconception.
Trainbands A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. dissolved by Charles II; - afterwards applied to London militia. http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=trainband&use1913=on
hans posts, or rather has problems with copy & paste: That every captain or commanding officer of a company, officers to can shall call the Train Band of his company together four days train band four in a year, and oftener if he shall judge necessary, not ^"ie alarm exceeding six days in the whole, for the purpose of exam- list once a vear- ining their arms and equipments, and instructing them in military exercises ; and shall also once in a year, on a day when he shall muster the Train Band of his company, call together the Alarm List belonging to his company..
You appear to be wanting to show they trained. Fine, no argument, but that's not the point.. trainbands were early militias, & they drilled periodically but 'in training' was not the requisite for being one. You blow smoke with tangential vague excerpts.