Much is made in #2A circles about gun control laws being used to disarm black citizens, but TIL of another aspect of 2A law that was used earlier.
Socialist groups in the late 19th Century used to train armed themselves into militias in order to counter private security firms.
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In 1886 SCOTUS case Presser v. Illinois established "state legislatures may enact statutes to control and regulate all organizations, drilling, and parading of military bodies and associations except those which are authorized by the militia laws of the United States."
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It further stated that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution limited only the power of Congress and the national government to control firearms, not the states.
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