Originally Posted by rickair7777

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.

The problem is the second comma should have been a semi-colon but apparently the framers either thought it was obvious enough, or had different practices in the use of punctuation. That's the kind of thing we apparently need a high court to weigh in on, although the obvious presumption in this case is that we have 200 years of precedent where nobody, from the founding fathers on, thought that comma was anything but a hard delineation.