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There's a plausible (to me, but I am not a lawyer) argument that floats around from time to time that the Second Amendment should be interpreted to protect the the right to carry a gun for the purposes of being in a state militia, not necessarily in general. That is, that it's really protecting states rights to have their own armies, not the right to carry a gun for any purpose whatsoever. The supreme court doesn't agree, but that's a recent thing and it's always possible for a future decision to supersede it. I'm not sure there should be a gun ban, but I don't think it would require an amendment to or particularly creative interpretation of the Constitution to do it.