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The 2nd Amendmant has nothing to do with hunting, target shooting, or any sport use of firearms whatsoever. The 2nd Amendmant has nothing to do with collecting guns, arsenals, explosives, or destructive devices. The 2nd Amendmant is 100% about ensuring that the single greatest protection of liberty, an armed populace, was Constitutionally guaranteed.
Read what the Founders said about gun ownership in the various papers they wrote outside the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The were very pro-gun-ownership, and for entirely political reasons.
As an aside, "well regulated", in the language of the times, can also be simply "well equipped".
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