My sentiments exactly. I wrote a piece advocating black powder arms as useful for sport, hunting & even self-defense (the Czech Republic, with Europe's most liberal gun laws, has developed some very fine two-shot black powder pistols). I think the "well-regulated militia" clause of A2 contradicts the second clause because it would have allowed me (back in the day) to own a set a vintage dueling pistols, my neighbor a Kentucky rifle & my other neighbor a Hussar light saber. How do those come together to form a well-regulated militia?

The only thing I added, which might be useful here, is a program that begins with a) legislation to make ownership of banned weapons a felony, combined with b) an utterly passive buy-back program. No gun-grabbing. At all. See, that's where we have the tiger by the tail. What to do with the millions & millions of firearms already in private hands. I say, do nothing. Make their possession a crime, yes. But do not allow law enforcement the right to seek them out. Let people turn them in. No questions asked. If you're caught with one, then yes, you go to jail like Bernie Goetz. But otherwise we have to sit back & wait for their numbers to reduce. It will take decades. But that's way better than the hundreds of Wacos & Ruby Ridges that would ensue from aggressive seizure.