Reddit reviews The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent (Constitutional Conflicts)

Few people understand or care about the obsolescence of the 2A, but you get that concept and I see it in your essay. I am guessing you have read the Uviller & Merkel book that runs along a similar vein. In any case, 99% of your readers have bought into the re-framing of "right to bear arms" as being synonymous with "the right to own weapons". Interestingly, this re-framed definition started happening back in the 1820's, see Bliss v. Commonwealth that discusses CCW for the first time only 30 years after the 2A. Of course, since Harlan Carter took over the NRA in 1977 things accelerated and they went on a multi-decade campaign to pack the SCOTUS, and won Heller which made their reframing official.