I appreciate all of the above responses.

A very key point of our quite fortunate situation in the US is the fact that the Bill of Rights specifically does NOT enumerate rights granted by the government, rather it merely afirms preexisting natural rights, ala Locke, and places it's restraints upon the government, not the governed. I like the 10th amendment even more than the second because it has the 2nd already built within it.

Thus the founders maintained that the right to be armed against tyranny was man's natural condition. By this reasoning, any future restrictive legislation or amendments are irrelevant. Let's all hope the court sees the light on this one!

Bob