What about the 2nd Amendment?

The 2nd Amendment

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

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This amendment gets into the issue of what is considered a militia and what is the extent to what arms can be beared and for why.

Militia

Main Entry: mi·li·tia


Pronunciation: \mə-ˈli-shə\

Function: noun

Etymology: Latin, military service, from milit-, miles

Date: 1625

1 a : a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency b : a body of citizens organized for military service

2 : the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service



As defined in a Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a militia is an organized militant group ordained by the law. Which puts into realization that a group of men who carry guns saying that they are fighting for our rights, does not constitute them as a militia. A militia acts when called on by the law or if a situation where the federal government acts against the common people occurs, the militia is the peoples army.
 
Here is a US national militia directory. Included on this site is a list of every active state militia by county/city.
http://www.constitution.org/mil/mil_us.htm 
 
If a group is not regulated by law officials but calls themselves a militia and act against the people to "prove a point" they cannot be considered a militia they are just another gang. We spend thousands of dollars a year on gang related inquiries, but we don't investigate into a group who declare themselves a militia. The word militia is not protected by the constitution but the definition is. What defines a militia is that they are retaliating an attack from a federal position, called upon by those who regulated them, and for the protection of the people of their state.