“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.”The hand-written copy of the Bill of Rights which hangs in the National Archives had slightly different capitalization and punctuation inserted by William Lambert, the scribe who prepared it. This copy reads:
“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.”Both versions are commonly used in official US Government publications.
The words that are often overlooked, "the security of a free state" clearly intends the people to protect themselves from tyranny, both from their own government and from other governments.
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