Gun Control & RKBA

"some degree of legal standing" is ridiculous. The SCOTUS Second Amendment precedent is scant because there has never, at least prior to D.C. v Heller, been a SCOTUS level disagreement as to what the Second Amendment represents and represented for the Founders.

The Heller decision was a blatant example of legislating from the bench, led by self-proclaimed Originalist Antonin Scalia, that effectively deleted much of the Second Amendment's clear language to arrive at Scalia's pre-determined decision to reverse the clear meaning of the Amendment.

There have been challenges, and state level decisions, but until Heller the recognized meaning of the Amendment protected only the right of a state militia, and its well organized and Federally regulated members, to possess weapons.

I understand that from the NRA's perspective, history must be rewritten to allow the fiction that Heller represents original intent, but calling a cow a horse does not make the cow a horse.

And speaking from a linguistic standpoint, the clear language links a well-regulated militia to the right of "the people", not every individual, to keep and bear arms. Even the phrase "bear arms" was understood by the Founders as carrying weapons in a militia.