The 2nd Amendment says "a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed". It is ridiculous to contend that any part of it, such as the clause about the militia, can be eliminated without changing the meaning of the entire Amendment and aborting the intent of the Founding Fathers. The "right to bear arms" was directly linked by them to membership in an organized militia force. This doesn't mean that "the government", whoever that is, has any right or intent to confiscate anybody's personally-owned submachine gun. BTW, you do know that the stories about the Nazi and Soviet governments confiscating all of the private weapons as soon as they came to power are myths, don't you?