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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by ufmace on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:05PM (#31868580)
If you read the original papers about this, it's clear that "well regulated" refers to "To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning." as defined in https://www.thefreedictionary.com/regulated, not "subject to arbitrary Government control".

In a plain reading, it makes sense in context for this to mean "well trained". It would be rather odd for it to both say, in a supporting clause, that it's subject to arbitrary Government control, and also in the main clause that the right "shall not be infringed".

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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by VVayneTracker on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:23PM (#31869514)
The difference is that one inures to state governments rather than the federal government. The concern at the time was that the federal government would take guns away from people in order to neuter the States' power to defend itself. The States themselves free to do what they wanted to regulate their citizens and militias.
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