Let's not be confused people. Guns are not just for hunting, they are for protecting citizens from unrestrained exercise of power and despotic abuse of authority. 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. In supreme court cases District of Columbia v. Heller(2008) and McDonald v. Chicago (2010), under which the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms much as the First Amendment protects the right to free speech. Under this model the militia is composed of members who supply their own arms and ammunition.