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Well, let's look at that. Miller v. US clearly stated that the Second Amendment didn't give a right to own a gun and that the government had an ability to regulate them.
Ahhhh, Wikipedia scholarship!
Both of your assertions are problematic. No SCOTUS opinion has
ever said the 2nd Amendment gave, granted, created or established any rights for anyone and
Miller did not endorse regulating arms.
All
Miller can be argued to say is the Court didn't have enough information to decide that the 2nd Amendment protected the civilian's possession and use of that one type of arm. Looking at
Miller as a legal determination, the NFA-34 wasn't "upheld" by direct decision, it only received a stay of execution.
See, SCOTUS is not a fact finding body; it only considers the arguments presented to it by the parties. In
Miller, the Court only heard the government's arguments, there was no appearance for Miller and Layton. The case ended with SCOTUS remanding the case for further proceedings, sending the case back down to have the lower court establish the relevant facts that were missing and perhaps SCOTUS could revisit the case if it was appealed again.
Having those facts --
is a sawed-off shotgun a type of arm that is any part of the ordinary military equipment or could it be used effectively in the common defense -- would allow the Supreme Court to actually decide the case. Of course Miller was dead and Layton took a plea deal so the case just evaporated, leaving a half-drawn picture, ripe for anti-gun liars to misrepresent the case.
Which they did to effect a couple years later in the lower federal court decisions I spoke of;
Cases v. U.S., 131 F.2d 916 (1st Cir. 1942) for the "militia right" interpretation and
U.S. v. Tot, 131 F.2d 261 (3rd Cir. 1942) for the "state's right" interpretation.
SCOTUS has never endorsed any other interpretation of the 2nd Amendment but that it is an individual right possessed by the private citizen, protecting his personal arms, without any militia association conditioning.
The "militia right" / "state's right" / "collective right" interpretations are inventions of the lower federal courts that began in 1942.
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