This excerpt from the Postscript of the Second Edition of my book, Delusion and Abandonment, is pertinent to the issue of the place of firearms in American society and rights of the citizens as guaranteed in the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution:

The nation cries out for remedy to the plight of about 100 fatal gun deaths a day and many mass shootings over the years, and still they (the Congress) refuse to act. The Second Amendment is quite clear about the matter of ‘a well regulated militia’, and Congress could artfully pass a Well Regulated Militia Gun Registration Act to obliterate the ill-conceived notion of unregulated firearms, to require that war weaponry and assault weapons be stored in public armories, and to create a data base and survey for all guns and owners in the United States for the simple purpose of public safety and national defense. They could require not just the inventory of all weapons in private possession but whether the owner is willing to serve in the militia. Even a world-class sophist such as Antonin Scalia, the champion of a very suspect concept of originalism about the intent of the writers of the Constitution, would be hard-pressed to delineate how this exceeds the charge of Congress to act in behalf of the general Welfare and to insure domestic Tranquility.