"The Gun Lobby's interpretation of the Second Amendment

is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud,
on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to insure that state armies - the militia - would be maintained for the defense of the state. The vary language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires."

Former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Warren Burger

THE INCONVENIENT MILITIA CLAUSE OF
THE SECOND AMENDMENT: WHY THE
SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO RESOLVE
THE DEBATE OVER THE RIGHT TO BEAR
ARMS

http://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1206&context=jcred
Published by St. John's Law Scholarship Repository, 2002

Bedtime reading.