2nd amendment issues

We've had threads about the right to bear arms. I would like to hear more about this "militia" thingie, and will open 4 threads. Let's keep it on track for once, shall we? I believe we can skip bullet 2, since we usually discuss the US amendment. ;) The question is: Who regulates this militia?

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/dailytimes/news/nation/6539733.htm ...full article

Once again the issue is before the highest court in the land. This time on appeal from the wacky 9th Circuit. Six Judges dissented on the rulling, a ban by the state of California on semi-auto rifles. One of the most stongly worded I've included here (which will blow any argument against the 2nd...

...are those damn extraneous commas! That sentence doesn't even parse! And now, a legitimate Constitutional question. The second article of Amendment 21, repealing Prohibition, reads: What good does it do to have a Constitutional amendment prohibiting something which is already illegal...