No, I understand how you have used the "theft" point you made, I was asking "Why are you making it"? Obviously, if I take something that doesn't belong to me and refuse to give it back, it's stealing. I'll stipulate to that even though I don't understand what it has to do with this as the 2nd Amendment does not tell you to steal guns just like it does not say you get to own one.

Now, the Militia is an Army issue you are just wrong about.

From George Masin University:

Armies comprised soldiers for whom military service was their principal occupation, while the militia comprised individuals who were subject to military service only on a part-time or emergency basis. Put differently, the armies were the regular forces, while the militia was the citizen army.

https://www.law.gmu.edu/pubs/papers/ls2216#:~:text=Armies%20comprised%20soldiers%20for%20whom,militia%20was%20the%20citizen%20army.

I'll use qualifying for retirement as a loose barometer of what a "career Soldier" is.

The House Budget Committee reported in December, 2013, that about 17% of military personnel eventually qualify for retirement.

That would make the US Army a Militia more than anything else. 83% of the non-conscript US Army are not career soldiers.

However, I'll tone that threshold down and call anyone who reenlisted as a "career soldier". Albeit a potentially short career. To goose those stats (and over-complicate them) the military keeps reenlistment stats based on your first tour which has a lot to do with it. Some paths require longer periods in the service to train and use you. Not surprisingly, someone who goes to WEST POINT is more likely to reenlist after his/her 8 (I think it's school +4, I may be wrong) than someone who joins the Marines out of high school for 2 years. However, people who take on the longest initial commitments have hit 50% reenlistment by percentage an odd year here and there.

So anyway you want to slice it, the US ARMY employs my interpretation of the 2nd Amendment and I feel it's more than reasonable to consider them 1, gigantic Militia. Which satisfies the clear and specific language used in the 2nd Amendment.

Hey, I own a couple of guns, but it says what it says.

An thank you for not breaking out the "God given right" non-sense.