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Going through some of my Constitutional Law textbook and the Federalist papers, it seems as if the 2nd Amendment was put in place as a military check against the government, if necessary.
Lucky for us, there are multitudes of other checks on the government, including, as dc_dux has said, the 1st, 4th, 5th amendments, division of powers, 2 yr house elections, executive veto power etc.
I think it would be foolhardy to say that the 2nd amendment is "unecessary" (no one has really said that, yet.) I tend to think of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) as a measure of last resort against an oppressive government. Fortunately, the government hasn't made egregious oppressive moves, and even then as others have frequently stated, using unorganized military force to check the national government would be near impossible (but it would make a strong political statement, wouldn't it?).
Either way, the 2nd amendment is not for hunting.
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I wish ammunition prices would go down too. I can barely find any .45ACP, and Walmart is *completely* out of .45.
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