There is no minimum size of "the well-regulated militia". A single, disciplined person perfectly satisfies the criterion.

I'm proud of the fact that I was raised up in a time and place where "personal protection" and "killing people" were never reasons to own a gun.

Good to know!
Our Clearcreek Free Militia meets all criteria listed!

I've talked to some gun nuts who think the Founding Fathers wrote in a clause to allow citizens every weapon that the government had just in case that mean old government decided to "take us over." This is far reaching indeed and has no common sense. The government does not want you to own a gun. The NRA wants you to own a gun. Keep in mind that dope and armaments are 2 of the worlds biggest money makers.

And there’s a reason absolutely no gun extremist will ever direct you to that 1788 essay because it blows their baloney into a million pieces.

A “well-regulated militia” didn’t mean guys who read Soldier of Fortune magazine running around in the woods with AK-47s and warpaint on their faces. It basically meant what today we call the National Guard.

It should be a properly constituted, ordered and drilled (“well-regulated&rdquo military force, organized state by state, explained Hamilton. Each state militia should be a “select corps,” “well-trained” and able to perform all the “operations of an army.” The militia needed “uniformity in … organization and discipline,” wrote Hamilton, so that it could operate like a proper army “in camp and field,” and so that it could gain the “essential … degree of proficiency in military functions.” And although it was organized state by state, it needed to be under the explicit control of the national government. The “well-regulated militia” was under the command of the president. It was “the military arm” of the government.