Piggybacking on the post immediately below.
When I hear "conservative" Anglican clergy say that they will "pray for gun control", this article helps to explain what I mean when I say they've alienated themselves from their Anglo-Saxon patrimony. The Founding Fathers, and especially the Antifederalists among them, meant to guarantee a popular militia, which was the successor to the Anglo-Saxon "fyrd". This is the purpose of the Second Amendment, and the firearms protected by that amendment are accordingly those most suitable to service in the reserve militia: