In light of the upcoming election, I will be picking up either a CZ75-P01 or Springfield Armory XD with hi-cap mags.

I'd like to swing an AR this year, but I doubt it's happening.

I did read an interesting article, wish I could find it, about the Democratic party giving up on the entire "gun" issue as statistics more and more are proving the anti-gun crowd wrong.

"Amendment II (the Second Amendment) of the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights declares a well-regulated militia as "being necessary to the security of a free State" and prohibits infringement of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms"

What I don't understand is how the SA can be construed as anything but an individual right? I mean if the whole purpose of it is to prevent a tyrannical government from gaining too much power, what good is the SA if a "collective" has to have some form of government approval whether at the state or federal level, to even bare arms?